amorousness
Example Sentences
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What the gods give they possibly conceal, for the average reader will not notice a superfluity of either amorousness or strength in Tony's character.
From Time Magazine Archive
He planned to have park-users sign a pledge, reading: "I will refrain from any action, posture or public display of amorousness that might be offensive to others or could set a bad example to children."
From Time Magazine Archive
For Hunt’s undercurrent of friendship and cheerfulness were substituted Byron’s prevailing notes of amorousness and melancholy.
From Leigh Hunt's Relations with Byron, Shelley and Keats by Miller, Barnette
He pictured all the passions of the earth since the Fall, from the devouring amorousness of Time's Revenges to the despotic fantasy of Instans Tyrannus; but he remained himself an Englishman of the middle class.
From Robert Browning by Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith)
Who was there in all Rome who did not scorn and mock at old Capuzzi, with his mean avarice, his silly amorousness, his crazy jealousy?--or who did not wish the poor tormented Marianna her freedom?
From The Serapion Brethren. Vol. II by Hoffmann, Ernst Theordor Wilhelm
