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Definition of Amorists
1. amorist [n] - See also: amorist
Lexicographical Neighbors of Amorists
Literary usage of Amorists
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Others for 1919: An Anthology of the New Verse by Alfred Kreymborg (1920)
"But in our amours amorists discern Such fluctuations that their ... When amorists
grow bald, then amours shrink Into the compass and curriculum Of ..."
2. Spenser, the School of the Fletchers, and Milton by Herbert Ellsworth Cory, Elizabeth Adelaide Herrmann (1912)
"Against the lyrics of the court amorists we may pit the long line of religious
lyrics from Crashaw, himself as ardent a royalist as Lovelace or Suckling, ..."
3. Platonism in English Poetry of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries by John Smith Harrison (1903)
"Such poor invention burns in their [the amorists'] low minde, Whose fire is wild,
and doth not upward go To praise, and on Thee, Lord, some ink bestow. ..."
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