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Definition of Amatory
1. Adjective. Expressive of or exciting sexual love or romance. "A romantic moonlight ride"
Definition of Amatory
1. a. Pertaining to, producing, or expressing, sexual love; as, amatory potions.
Definition of Amatory
1. Adjective. Of or relating to love, especially sexual love. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Amatory
1. pertaining to sexual love [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Amatory
Literary usage of Amatory
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Poetical Works of Thomas Moore by Thomas Moore, Alfred Denis Godley (1910)
"amatory COLLOQUY BETWEEN BANK AND GOVERNMENT 1826. BANK Is all then forgotten ?
those amorous pranks When you call'd me the fondest, the truest of Banks, ..."
2. The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: Including the Series by Alexander Chalmers, Samuel Johnson (1810)
"... and those other wort«, written in his more serious moments, that were intended
to counteract the licentious tendency of his amatory verses. ..."
3. The Monthly Review by Ralph Griffiths (1818)
"amatory and other Verses. By Howard Fish. Svo. is. 6d. Sherwood and Co. 1817.
We really feel obliged to Mr. Fish for having modestly designated these little ..."
4. The Poems of William Dunbar by William Dunbar, Aeneas James George Mackay, George Powell McNeill (1893)
"amatory or Love Poems. 4. Comic or Humorous Poems. 5. Laudatory Poems or Panegyrics.
6. Vituperative Poems or Invectives. 7. Precatory Poems or Petitions to ..."
5. Introduction to the literature of Europe in the fifteenth, sixteenth, and by Henry Hallam (1854)
"The amatory sonnets of this age, forming the greater coldness of number, are very
frequently cold and affected. 6. Among the canzoni of this period, ..."
6. A Dictionary of English Synonymes and Synonymous Or Parallel Expressions by Richard Soule, George Holmes Howison (1891)
"Amid (while making part of}, А~'чго:а, л I. Full of sexual pación, erotic, -.:dcnt.
full of desire, prone to sexuality. 3. amatory, erotic, tender ..."
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