amorist

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In the account of this celebrated Arabian amorist, we come upon a very pretty story.

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  1. noun One dedicated to love, especially sexual love.
  2. noun One who writes about love.

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  • In the account of this celebrated Arabian amorist, we come upon a very pretty story. —  A Boswell of Baghdad With Diversions
  • Satiety is the bane of the amorist, and of worse than he. —  In a Green Shade A Country Commentary
  • Frizzy straight-cut masses that would have charmed Rossetti abounded, and one gentleman, who was pointed out to Graham under the mysterious title of an "amorist," wore his hair in two becoming plaits ŕ la Marguerite. —  The Sleeper Awakes A Revised Edition of When the Sleeper Wakes
  • There followed the dedication to the Earl of Venus and Adonis; a poem likely to please any young amorist (1693 Mr. Greenwood cries out at the audacity of a player dedicating to an Earl, without even saying that he has asked leave to dedicate. —  Shakespeare, Bacon, and the Great Unknown
  • But whichever be the hypothesis we prefer to accept, either will serve to explain the queen's inclination to lay her eggs in workers' cells, without it being necessary to credit her with the least concern for the future It is not impossible that this slave-mother, whom we are inclined to pity, may be indeed a great amorist, a great voluptuary, deriving a certain enjoyment, an after-taste, as it were, of her one marriage-flight, from the union of the male and female principle that thus comes to pass in her being. —  The Life of the Bee
 

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Etymologies (2)

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  1. Latin amor, love; see amorous + -ist.

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  1. from -amor + -ist.
 

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/ˈæmərɪst/
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