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Definition of Amorous
1. Adjective. Inclined toward or displaying love. "Feeling amorous"
2. Adjective. Expressive of or exciting sexual love or romance. "A romantic moonlight ride"
Definition of Amorous
1. a. Inclined to love; having a propensity to love, or to sexual enjoyment; loving; fond; affectionate; as, an amorous disposition.
Definition of Amorous
1. Adjective. Inclined to love; having a propensity to love, or to sexual enjoyment; loving; fond; affectionate; as, an amorous disposition. ¹
2. Adjective. Indicating love or sexual desire. ¹
3. Adjective. Of or relating to, or produced by, love. ¹
4. Adjective. (dated) Affected with love; in love; enamored. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Amorous
1. pertaining to love [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Amorous
Literary usage of Amorous
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Dictionary of the Drama: A Guide to the Plays, Play-wrights, Players, and by William Davenport Adams (1904)
"amorous Fantasme (The). A tragicomedy by Sir WILLIAM LOWER, ... The "amorous
prince "is named Frederick, and debauches ..."
2. Paradise Lost: A Poem in Twelve Books by John Milton (1750)
"... but all night tun'd her foft lays: Others And on their naked limbs the The
amorous bird of night Show'rd rofes, which the morn evening ftar flow'ry roof ..."
3. Some Account of the English Stage: From the Restoration in 1660 to 1830 by John Genest (1832)
"... footman with his flambeau stands just under Sir amorous—Betty extricates him
from his awkward situation—Miranda sends Betty for Sir amorous' clothes—he ..."
4. A Concordance to the English Poems of Thomas Gray by Albert Stanburrough Cook, Concordance Society (1908)
"Art it requires, and more than winged speed. Tasso 30. Thanks. Thanks to the rosy
queen Of amorous thefts: Agr. 188. That, omitted. The, omitted. Theatre's. ..."
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