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amaˈtorious, a.
[f. as prec. + -ous.]
Relating to love, amatory. Also, inclined to love, amorous. Hence amaˈtoriousness.
1601Holland Pliny (1634) II. 40 This root had an amatorious propertie to win loue. 1603― Plutarch's Mor. 27 These and such like amatorious words. 1649Milton Eikon. 12 The vaine amatorious Poem of Sir Philip Sidneys Arcadia. 1746Francis tr. Horace, Ep. i. iii. 31 Sure to gain, for amatorious Lays, The Wreaths of Ivy, with unenvied Praise. 1887Longman's Mag. Nov. 108 A fine balance between domestic and ‘amatorious’ interest on one hand, and romance on the other. 1893National Observer 1 Apr. 489/1 Girls and boys..jostle and jest at one another with a certain violence of amatoriousness. Ibid. 23 Sept. 482/1 The divagations of amatorious poets with fragile women. 1897W. E. Henley in Poetry R. Burns IV. 249 It was natural and honourable in a young man of this lusty and amatorious habit to look round for a wife. |