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amorist|ˈæmərɪst|
Also 7–9 amourist.
[f. L. amor or Fr. amour love + -ist.]
1. One who professes love, a professed lover.
a. usually, A votary of (sexual) love, a gallant.
1581Sidney Sonnet i, Faint amorist! what, dost thou think To taste love's honey, and not drink One dram of gall? 1620Shelton Don Quix. III. xxxii. 222 Tho' I be enamoured, yet I am not of those vicious Amourists, but of your chaste Platonicks. a1652Brome Court Beggar i. i, An extreame Amorist desperately devoted Unto the service of some threescore Ladies. 1798Lamb Lett. i. (1841) 28 Like some hot amourist with glowing eyes. 1880Webb Goethe's Faust i. ii. 67 One clings to earth, like some fond amorist, With strong organic clutch.
b. rarely of other than sexual love.
1635A. Stafford Fem. Glory (1869) 115 You who have lived spirituall Amourists. 1660Boyle Seraph. Love 92 Surely the Divine Amorist had cause to say that ‘herein is the love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us.’
2. One who treats of love; a writer of amatory literature. Also attrib.
1641Milton Ch. Govt. ii. 41 A work not..like that which flows..from the pen of some vulgar Amorist, or the trencher fury of a riming parasite. 1824Blackw. Mag. XVI. 191 Our most eminent amorist..Tom Moore. 1882Palgrave in Grosart Spenser's Wks. IV. p. lx, Amourist literature. 1905Athenæum 1 Apr. 390/3 The poet..is imagined as a mild and amiable amorist. 1909Jusserand Lit. Hist. Eng. People III. 468 The..amourist writers of Elizabethan times. |
