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单词 amorist
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amoristn.adj.

Brit. /ˈamərɪst/, U.S. /ˈæmərəst/
Forms: 1500s– amorist, 1600s– amourist.
Origin: A borrowing from Latin, combined with an English element. Etymons: Latin amor , -ist suffix.
Etymology: < classical Latin amor love (see Amor n.) + -ist suffix.In form amourist apparently remodelled after French amour (see amour n.).
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).
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