amorist
Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
- noun One dedicated to love, especially sexual love.
- noun One who writes about love.
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- noun A lover; a gallant; an inamorato.
- noun One who is given to writing love-sonnets or -songs.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
- noun A lover; a gallant.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
- noun Someone who is in love.
- noun Someone who writes about love.
Examples
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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 a la Marguerite.
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When Sir Harry Flashman, V.C., the celebrated Victorian soldier, scoundrel, amorist, and self-confessed poltroon, began to write his memoirs early in the present century, he set to work with a discipline remarkable in one whose life and conduct were, to put it charitably, haphazard and irregular.
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I hate him about his patent henesy, plasfh it, yet am I amorist.
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He, the unpublished writer and debutant amorist, is always telling her, the well-known poet and skilled boudoir operator, just exactly what is what in both art and love: 'O enfant, enfant, que tu es jeune encore!' is a characteristic apostrophe to a woman eleven years his senior.
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The marquis was a great lord and a brave captain, but long past his first youth; his actions went somewhat too deliberately ever to be roused to the high lunacies of the Sestian amorist.
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This letter, if it had been written by an amorist, would seem either base or priggish.
Note
The word 'amorist' comes from a Latin word meaning 'love'.
