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Definition of Amative
1. Adjective. Inclined toward or displaying love. "Feeling amorous"
Definition of Amative
1. a. Full of love; amatory.
Definition of Amative
1. Adjective. Pertaining to love; amorous. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Amative
1. amorous [adj] - See also: amorous
Lexicographical Neighbors of Amative
Literary usage of Amative
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Chapters on Human Love by Walter Matthew Gallichan (1898)
"Description of the faculty—Its potentiality for good or ill—Physiological
characteristics of the amative—Location of the " organ of amativeness," by ..."
2. Plain home talk by Edward Bliss Foote (1892)
"How they are made Instrumental in Perpetuating the Race. In the opening of this
essay, let me say to the reader that the amative or ..."
3. The Origin of Life and Process of Reproduction in Plants and Animals: With by Frederick Hollick (1878)
"PHILOSOPHY OF amative INDULGENCE. THOSE who suppose that sexual enjoyment is
altogether immoral and unworthy of rational beings, and those who regard it as ..."
4. Lectures on Rhetoric and Belles Lettres by Hugh Blair (1817)
"The expression with which the sentence concludes, amative to put us upon fresh
discoveries, is flat, and, in some decree, improper. He should have said, ..."
5. What a Man of Forty-five Ought to Know by Sylvanus Stall (1901)
"The Strength and Nature of the amative Inclination. — Repellent People, or People
Devoid of Sexual Inclination. — Absence of amativeness Recognized by ..."
6. Religion as Credible Doctrine: A Study of the Fundamental Difficulty by William Hurrell Mallock (1903)
"I will, however, take an illustration which has the qualities of a proof as well—
namely, the strange recurrence of the vagaries to which amative desire is ..."
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