amative

• If a good man comes in his way, he looks at him with a strange kind of unacquaintance that almost rises into respect; but he is certainly more affectionate, and on far better terms, with men about town--amative hairdressers, flirting grisettes, and the whole genus, male and female, of the epiciers. —  Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 329, March, 1843
• His skull was sharply cut and fine; with plenty, according to the phrenologists, both of the reflective and amative organs; and his poetry will bear them out. —  The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 407, December 24, 1829
• The two hungering bodies slide down onto the bed where they commence an affable moment of amative foreplay. —  Mystery Man on Film
• But situated here he could not go so far as amative cruelty. —  The Woodlanders
• It was a surprise to see these leisurely and luxurious animals spattering the water in such an ecstasy of amative rage. —  The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 87, January, 1865

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