单词 | amorist |
释义 | amoristn.adj. A. n. 1. a. A person devoted to or preoccupied by love, sex, or flirtation; a (promiscuous) lover. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > love > flirtation or coquetry > [noun] > flirt > male flirt > ladies' man or philanderer gallanta1450 dalliera1568 women's man1568 amorist1595 woman's man1597 lady-mongerc1600 dammaret1635 topgallant1701 agapet1736 ladies' man1764 Jack among the maids1785 philanderer1841 Romeo1902 tea-hound1921 bird dog1942 1595 R. S. tr. Amorous Contention Phillis & Flora in G. Chapman Ouids Banquet of Sence sig. Iv The triple Graces there assist, Sustaining with their brests commist And knees that Tellus bosome kist The Challice of this Amorist. 1620 T. Shelton tr. M. de Cervantes 2nd Pt. Don Quixote xxxii. 208 I am enamoured, onely because there is a necessity Knights Errant should bee so, and though I be so, yet I am not of those vicious Amorists, but of your chaste Platonicks. a1652 R. Brome Court Begger i. i. sig. N7v, in Five New Playes (1653) An extreame Amorist, desperatly devoted Unto the service of some threescore Ladies. 1708 E. Ward Mod. World Disrob'd 82 The incontinent Amorists of the upper Form, do not meet there so often only to fit their Hands with Gloves. 1799 C. Lamb Let. 23 Jan. in Lett. C. & M. A. Lamb (1975) I. 159 Like some hot amourist with glowing eyes. 1834 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. June 1016/1 Such..had been the innocent dalliance of Aurora Day with Christopher North, when the eyes of that amorist caught a peep of Lowood. 1927 M. Sadleir Trollope: Comm. 371 The amorist regards his love successes as of a piquancy unrivalled. 1986 Financial Times 27 Sept. p. xviii/2 A cosmopolitan amorist, a great charmer, cajoler and flatterer of women. 1992 G. M. Fraser Quartered Safe out Here 183 As a harassed orderly officer in North Africa I had to raid more brothels, endure the screaming protests of more furious harlots, and see more frustrated amorists into the paddy-wagon, than I care to count. b. A person who loves or has a liking for a specified person or thing; (in early use) esp. a person who loves God. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > love > [noun] > one who loves lovingeOE lovera1387 amourc1400 patriot1631 amorist1635 1635 A. Stafford Femall Glory 148 You who have lived spirituall Amourists. 1660 R. Boyle Seraphic Love 92 Surely the Divine Amorist had cause to say that ‘herein is the love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us.’ 1713 J. Edwards Theologia Reformata II. iii. 291 To love our Brethren is a constant Effect and Issue of our Love to God. This is confirmed by the great Amorist [sc. St John]. 1744 T. Birch Life R. Boyle 36 The vain amorists of outward greatness. 1899 G. Douglas J. Hogg iv. 88 The fatuous amorist of his own eloquence. 1920 J. C. Powys Complex Vision xiv. 336 The possessive instinct is, in its profoundist abyss, an amorist of death. What it secretly loves is the dead. 1947 R. Wilbur Beautiful Changes 10 I think of Amundsen... An amorist of violet virgin snows. 2006 Gastronomica Summer 6/1 Liz Maguire was an unabashed amorist when it came to food. 2. A writer of love poetry; a writer whose main subject is love. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > love > amorous love > [noun] > one who treats of love amorist1642 society > leisure > the arts > literature > writer or author > [noun] > writers of other types of material metaphrast1610 lasher1611 pastoralist1619 amorist1642 travel writer1711 party writer1715 Poor Richard1757 murdermonger1785 manners-painter1807 institutionalist1817 paroemiographer1823 nautical1831 nonsense-writera1835 recaster1841 serialist1845 snobographer1848 librettist1862 palindromist1872 fragmentist1874 text-man1900 scriptwriter1911 paradoxographer1917 absurdist1929 blogger1999 weblogger1999 1642 J. Milton Reason Church-govt. 41 A work not..like that which flows..from the pen of some vulgar Amorist, or the trencher fury of a riming parasite. 1824 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 16 191 Our most eminent amorist..Tom Moore. 1916 W. J. Locke Wonderful Year vi. 90 Two phases of French poetry formed an essential factor of his intellectual life—the Fifteenth Century Amorists, and the later romanticists. 1998 J. G. Haahr in J. J. Paxson & C. A. Gravlee Desiring Discourse i. 40 I will focus on the rhetorical device called recusatio..by means of which Ovid and other Roman amorists introduced the issue of the poetic legitimacy of amatory subjects. B. adj. (attributive). Of or relating to love or desire; spec. of or relating to writing, esp. poetry, which is about love. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > love > [adjective] lovesomeOE lovelyOE amorousa1393 lovinga1450 lovingly1493 beloving1549 amorevolousa1670 romantic1866 amorist1882 1882 F. T. Palgrave in E. Spenser Compl. Wks. IV. p. lx A fervour and a loveliness hardly surpassed and rarely equalled in the world's amourist literature. 1909 J. Jusserand Lit. Hist. Eng. People III. 468 The..amourist writers of Elizabethan times. 1974 R. M. Adams Rom. Stamp i. 11 The words of the satirist or amorist poet. 2005 Edmonton (Alberta) Jrnl. (Nexis) 5 June e11 His amorist adventures and conquests. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2019; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.adj.1595 |
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