Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Of, relating to, or expressive of love, especially romantic love.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Pertaining to, producing, or supposed to produce love; expressive of love; amatorial: as, amatory poems.
- Synonyms See
amorous .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Pertaining to, producing, or expressing, sexual love.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Of or relating to
love , especiallysexual love.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective expressive of or exciting sexual love or romance
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Her subject was usually 'amatory' fiction, narratives of desire focussing on highly charged sexual episodes, concerned with love and seduction in all their guises.
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He is much more in his element when he proves that a lover is to his mistress, when she is about to go to a ball, only a "decimal of a lover," a kind of amatory tailor or ninth part of man; or when, in the
A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 From the Beginning to 1800 George Saintsbury 1889
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Google Translate comes up with this version of a Spanish-language article in Petroleum World: “After his second divorce, amatory life of Hugo Chávez has shielded beneath the mysterious mantle of power.”
VDARE.com: Blog Articles » Print » The Love Life Of Hugo Chavez 2010
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Google Translate comes up with this version of a Spanish-language article in Petroleum World: “After his second divorce, amatory life of Hugo Chávez has shielded beneath the mysterious mantle of power.”
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How amatory God contingency be to have bestowed this ray of light in to his miserable life.
Archive 2009-11-01 admin 2009
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Google Translate comes up with this version of a Spanish-language article in Petroleum World: “After his second divorce, amatory life of Hugo Chávez has shielded beneath the mysterious mantle of power.”
Allan Wall Interview on Breitbart TV´s B-Cast, 5:15 p.m. Eastern Time, April 30th 2010
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How amatory God contingency be to have bestowed this ray of light in to his miserable life.
stole_bread @ 2009-10-10T00:25:00 admin 2009
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Almonds in particular have been touted for their amatory properties, being, as they are, fragrant and shaped like a woman's hips.
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One might see this as someprofound metaphor for the human condition, or at least its amatory component.
Tête à Tête festival 2010
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Fifi returns with Fritz's snack, allowing him to camouflage his excitement as amatory.
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