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Definition of Paramour
1. Noun. A woman's lover.
2. Noun. A woman who cohabits with an important man.
Generic synonyms: Fancy Woman, Kept Woman, Mistress
Specialized synonyms: Odalisque
Definition of Paramour
1. n. A lover, of either sex; a wooer or a mistress (formerly in a good sense, now only in a bad one); one who takes the place, without possessing the rights, of a husband or wife; -- used of a man or a woman.
2. adv. By or with love, esp. the love of the sexes; -- sometimes written as two words.
Definition of Paramour
1. Adverb. (obsolete) Of loving etc.: passionately, out of sexual desire; devotedly. (defdate from 14th c.) ¹
2. Noun. An illicit lover, either male or female. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Paramour
1. an illicit lover [n -S]
Medical Definition of Paramour
1. 1. A lover, of either sex; a wooer or a mistress (formerly in a good sense, now only in a bad one); one who takes the place, without possessing the rights, of a husband or wife; used of a man or a woman. "The seducer appeared with dauntless front, accompanied by his paramour" (Macaulay) 2. Love; gallantry. "For paramour and jollity." Origin: F. Par amour, lit, by or with love. See Par, and Amour. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Paramour
Literary usage of Paramour
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. La Mort D'Arthure: The History of King Arthur and of the Knights of the by Thomas Malory (1866)
"How sir Tristram tooke with him the shield, and also how bee slew the paramour
of Morgan le Fay. JO then sir Tristram tooke his leave of the queene, ..."
2. The Rights and Liabilities of Husband and Wife by John Fraser Macqueen, Sydney Hastings, John Davies Davenport (1872)
""Where a wife elopes, and she and her paramour jointly carry off the husband's
property, the paramour may be convicted of larceny, provided that there is ..."
3. A Handbook of Husband and Wife According to the Law of Scotland by Frederick Parker Walton (1893)
"Action of Damages against the paramour.—A husband is entitled to raise an action
for damages against the seducer of his wife. The ground is generally put as ..."
4. A Treatise on the Law of Crimes by William Lawrence Clark, William Lawrence Marshall, Herschel Bouton Lazell (1905)
"Killing Wife's paramour. The killing by a husband of his wife's paramour is not
justifiable or excusable at common law,471 though in some states it is made ..."
5. The London Encyclopaedia, Or, Universal Dictionary of Science, Art by Thomas Tegg (1829)
"Shall I believe That unsubstantial death is amorous, Л nd that the lean abhorred
monster keeps 'lh ее here in dark to be his paramour? Sl<ak*peare. ..."
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