Amorist
a person who is devoted to love and lovemaking.
a person who writes about love.
Historical Examples
In the account of this celebrated Arabian amorist, we come upon a very pretty story.
A Boswell of Baghdad E. V. Lucas
This letter, if it had been written by an amorist, would seem either base or priggish.
The Art of Letters Robert Lynd
A memory of the days when Izaak was an amorist, and shone in love ditties, appears thus.
Andrew Lang’s Introduction to The Compleat Angler Andrew Lang
“I know,” she said, and something in her voice touched the trained sensibilities of the amorist.
The Incomplete Amorist E. Nesbit
It consists but seldom in any regularity of feature, for their appeal is to the amorist rather than to the sculptor in marble.
The Land of The Blessed Virgin; Sketches and Impressions in Andalusia William Somerset Maugham
The possessive instinct is, in its profoundest abyss, an amorist of death.
The Complex Vision John Cowper Powys
noun
a lover or a writer about love
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