amorist

American  

[am-er-ist] / ˈæm ər ɪst /

noun

1. a person who is devoted to love and lovemaking.

2. a person who writes about love.

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amorist British  

/ ˈæmərɪst /

noun

1. a lover or a writer about love

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Other Word Forms

• amoristic adjective

Etymology

Origin of amorist

1575–85; < Latin amor love + -ist

Example Sentences

The two Shaws of greatest interest are the antiwarrior and the amorist.

From Time Magazine Archive

Faint amorist, what, dost thou think To taste Love's honey, and not drink One dram of gall? or to devour A world of sweet, and taste no sour?

From A Defence of Poesie and Poems by Sidney, Philip, Sir

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 à la Marguerite.

From The Sleeper Awakes A Revised Edition of When the Sleeper Wakes by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)

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

From Great Men and Famous Women, Vol. 7 A Series of Pen and Pencil Sketches of the Lives of More Than 200 of the Most Prominent Personages in History by Horne, Charles F. (Charles Francis)

The possessive instinct is, in its profoundest abyss, an amorist of death.

From The Complex Vision by Powys, John Cowper