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amorist

[ am-er-ist ]

noun

  1. a person who is devoted to love and lovemaking.
  2. a person who writes about love.


amorist

/ ˈ泾ə°ùɪ²õ³Ù /

noun

  1. a lover or a writer about love
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of amorist1

1575–85; < Latin amor love + -ist
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It was the custom for an amorist to impress the name of his mistress in the dust, or upon the damp earth, with letters fixed upon his shoe.

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Now is the time when man can prove the stuff of which he is made; and the religious amorist, the false mystic, is distinguished from the heroic and long-suffering servant of God.

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The passage has caused some critics to reproach Keats as a mere mawkish amorist indifferent to the great affairs and interests of the world.

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Nor is poetry extinguished because the singer deems it his vocation to utter genuine thought, and scorns the rhyming pastimes of the simple amorist.

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The other, under the title of "Eloisa to Abelard," versifies the Latin letters of that distinguished amorist to her lover.

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