amative

• “His form was what phrenologists call amative; and of these facts we have some very curious proofs.”

  Fanaticism; Its Source and Influence, Illustrated by the Simple Narrative of Isabella, in the Case of Matthias, Mr. and Mrs. B. Folger, Mr. Pierson, Mr. Mills, Catherine, Isabella, &c. &c. A Reply to W. L. Stone, with the Descriptive Portraits of All the Parties, While at Sing-Sing and at Third Street.--Containing the Whole Truth--and Nothing but the Truth.

• “The waiting was tedious, and having been long denied, the amative element could not brook further delay.”

  Jack London Play:The Scorn of Women

• “Mr. Anesko's writes of "thinly veiled homoeroticism" of James's letters to Andersen and elsewhere of their "undeniably amative nature.”

  The Wall Street Journal: The Afterlife of the Lion

• “For that matter, though not amative to any considerable degree so far as I have discovered, I was never outside the atmosphere of women until now.”

  Chapter 14

• “But situated here he could not go so far as amative cruelty.”

  The Woodlanders

• “A similar thing has been seen to take place in those birds that are amative, as partridges and hens.”

  On the Generation of Animals

• “Just like the maquiladora plants, the amative establishments that served their employees operated on a twenty-four-hour work schedule.”

  The Mocking Program

• “Forty-second Street had been a sort of Hell's Gate, a place for the grotesquely amative intermingling of species.”

  Gone for Good

• “I fully expected that we would be even later, for the pro cess of fastening buttons has the effect of arousing Emerson's amative instincts.”

  The Curse of the Pharaohs

• “Nor are many persons sufficiently aware of the ruinous extent to which the amative propensity is indulged by married persons.”

  Searchlights on Health The Science of Eugenics

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