Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Amatory.

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  • adjective of or pertaining to romantic love

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Examples

  • One, he said, "will be more fully told by the SEC and the Justice Department as it examines how the FDA process and what appears to be some rather amoristic players conspired in a way that allowed insider trading to potentially occur and an awful lot of investors to lose a lot of money while insiders were trading on information that was available only to them."

    Bush's FDA - Perpetual Leaker of Insider Information 2008

  • It is in such rare moments of revelation that a man realises dimly what it may mean for a woman dowered with the real courage and dignity of self-surrender to give herself to him; that he is vouch-safed a glimpse into that mystery of love, which cynics of the decadent school dismiss as "amoristic sentiment," a fictitious glorification of mere natural instinct.

    The Great Amulet Maud Diver 1906

  • The accidental function of marriage is the gratification of the amoristic sentiment of mankind.

    Maxims for Revolutionists 1903

  • Marriage, or any other form of promiscuous amoristic monogamy, is fatal to large States because it puts its ban on the deliberate breeding of man as a political animal.

    Maxims for Revolutionists 1903

  • He gets on best with romantic Christians of the amoristic sect: hence the friendship which has sprung up between him and Octavius.

    Act II 1903

  • I rail at the theistic credulity of Voltaire, the amoristic superstition of Shelley, the revival of tribal soothsaying and idolatrous rites which Huxley called Science and mistook for an advance on the Pentateuch, no less than at the welter of ecclesiastical and professional humbug which saves the face of the stupid system of violence and robbery which we call Law and Industry.

    Epistle Dedicatory 1903

  • Voltaire, the amoristic superstition of Shelley, the revival of tribal soothsaying and idolatrous rites which Huxley called Science and mistook for an advance on the Pentateuch, no less than at the welter of ecclesiastical and professional humbug which saves the face of the stupid system of violence and robbery which we call Law and Industry.

    Man and Superman George Bernard Shaw 1903

  • He gets on best with romantic Christians of the amoristic sect: hence the friendship which has sprung up between him and Octavius.

    Man and Superman George Bernard Shaw 1903

  • a dozen religions: some of them barbarous; some cynical and pessimistic; some amoristic and romantic; some sceptical and challenging; some kindly, simple, and intuitional; some sophistical and intellectual; none suited to the character and conditions of western civilization unless it be the Christianity which was finally suppressed by the Crucifixion, and has never been put into practice by any State before or since.

    Treatise on Parents and Children George Bernard Shaw 1903

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