paramour

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And Thackeray has drawn one typical example of such bad women with an anatomical precision that makes us shudder And if Becky Sharp be the masterpiece of Thackeray's art amongst the characters, the scene of her husband's encounter with her paramour is the masterpiece of all the scenes in Vanity Fair_, and has no superior, hardly any equal, in modern fiction.

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  1. noun A lover, especially one in an adulterous relationship.

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  • Besotted with fear, that fruitful mother of crime, she ended by putting to death the young king, her son, and publicly calling her paramour (the court astrologer, in whose thoughts, she believed, were hidden all the secrets of divination) to the throne of the P'hrabatts. —  THE ENGLISH GOVERNESS AT THE SIAMESE COURT
  • A male customer purchasing for his paramour is easily cowed by thoughts of chest, cup, and waist measurements. —  AVN News
  • The document wound up by telling how she had tried to secure the throne for a paramour, and the truth coming to some o'erzealous friends of the State, they had arisen and taken her life. —  Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great Philosophers, Volume 8
  • If her paramour is a Gond, Rawat, Binjhwar or Kawar, he is allowed to become a Dhanwar and marry her on giving several feasts, the exact number being fixed by the village Baiga or priest in a panchayat or committee. —  The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India Volume II
  • And Thackeray has drawn one typical example of such bad women with an anatomical precision that makes us shudder And if Becky Sharp be the masterpiece of Thackeray's art amongst the characters, the scene of her husband's encounter with her paramour is the masterpiece of all the scenes in Vanity Fair_, and has no superior, hardly any equal, in modern fiction. —  Studies in Early Victorian Literature
 

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  1. Middle English, from par amour, by way of love, passionately, from Anglo-Norman : par, by (from Latin per; see per1 in Indo-European roots) + amour, love (from Latin amor, from amāre, to love).

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  1. from Middle English paramour, paramowre, a lover: see paramour, adv.
 

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