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amatory
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Word definitions for amatory in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1590s, "pertaining to love" (especially sexual love), from Latin amatorius "loving," from amatus , past participle of amare (see Amy ).
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. Of or relating to love, especially sexual love.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Amatory \Am"a*to*ry\, a. Pertaining to, producing, or expressing, sexual love; as, amatory potions.
Usage examples of amatory.
He appealed to the senses, referred entirely to some particular and trivial coincidence, and often put amatory weaknesses under contribution to give it force.
He says, for instance, that we laugh at love and amatory adventures because they abound in deceptions!
He was still sexually undeveloped, but imagination forestalled his physique, and made him capable of amatory sensitiveness beyond his years.
Out at sea, many of these sailors had picked up amatory habits that were frowned upon back on dry land.
Then down they rush in amatory race, Their dusty bridegrooms eager to embrace.
What has most struck me in these amatory correspondences has been their remarkable sameness.
I myself can barely look back on those twenty years of amatory servility with a full comprehension of the part I have been playing in them.
That man had been the first to divide him in the all but equal slices of his egoistic from his amatory self: murder of his individuality was the crime of Horace De Craye.
English literature, so large a collection of amatory songs in which sensualism and voluptuousness find no voice.
He alluded to the baroque amatory practices of the Third-Level Illyalla people, and soothed himself, in the classical Dar-Halma tongue, with one of those rambling genealogical insults favored in the Indo-Turanian Sector of the Fourth Level.
And very soon loud, smacking kisses, amatory pinches and ticklings, and skittish squeals of pleasure did their work.
At times I half suspected him of a convalescent amatory disappointment.
His amatory songs and catches are such poetry as Orlando would have liked to hang on the boughs in the forest of Arden.
Whenever she heard news of him it would invariably involve some highly coloured account of his amatory adventures, for he appeared to have become a thorough-going rake and wastrel.
An exquisite dulcet epithalame of most mollificative suadency for juveniles amatory whom the odoriferous flambeaus of the paranymphs have escorted to the quadrupedal proscenium of connubial communion.