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▪ I. amour1
(əˈmʊə(r), Fr. aˈmur)
Also 4 amoure, 6–7 amor.
[a. OFr. amur, amour:—L. amōr-em love, f. amā-re to love. In 13–15th c. accented aˈmour, but thoroughly naturalized; hence duly became ˈamour in 15–17th (cf. eˈnamour); in 16–17th often written amor after L. But by 17th the good or neutral sense of the word became obs.; and being retained only in senses 3–4, it came to be treated more or less as a euphemistic employment of mod.Fr., and hence again accented aˈmour (Milton, Butler, Pope, etc.).]
†1. gen. Love, affection, friendship. Obs.
c1300K. Alis. 4573 Alisaunder..wolde him, with gret honour, Have y-fonge in his amour. c1330Florice & Bl. 521 Tho spak Clarice to Blauncheflour Wordes ful of fin amour. c1386Chaucer Knt.'s T. 297 For par amour I loved hire first or thou. 1660R. Burney κέρδιστον Δῶρον (1661) 133 The great City in homage to the Kings Majesty, the Kings Majesty in Amour with the City of London, is the holy bands of Matrimony. 1742Young Nt. Thoughts iv. 350 Oh love of gold! thou meanest of amours!
†2. pl. The tender affections, love towards one of the opposite sex (L. amores, Fr. amours). in amours (with): in love (with). Obs.
1375Barbour Bruce viii. 498 Than mycht he weill ask ane lady Hir amouris and hir drowry. c1425Wyntoun vii. 99 Hyr amowris þus til my Hart rynnys. 1523Ld. Berners Froissart I. lxxvii. 98 The kyng of Englande was in amours with the countesse of Salisbury. Ibid. cccxliv. 543 In true amours togyder eche of other. 1590Greene Arcadia (1616) 11 He could not bridle his new conceiued amors. 1625Shirley Love-tricks v. iii, Out of mere amors and affections. 1727Arbuthnot John Bull (1755) 48 There is nothing so obstinate as a young lady in her amours.
3. A love-affair, love-making, courtship. (Now only humorously of honourable love-making.)
1567Drant Horace, Arte Poet. A iij, The Musies taughte in lyrike verse..Amors of youth and banquets francke On instruments to sing. 1665Pepys Diary 15 Aug., To leave the young people together to begin their amours. 1678Butler Hudibr. iii. i. 913 In all amours a lover burns With frowns as well as smiles, by turns. 1791Hamilton Berthollet's Dyeing II. ii. iii. 169 The life of the cochineal insect terminates by its amours. 1814Scott Wav. xxiii. 104 You cannot expect me to disturb him in his amours. 1828Kirby & Spence Entomol. III. xxxii. 313 These gentlemen may have mistaken a battle for an amour.
4. usually, An illicit love affair, an intrigue.
a1626Bacon Q. Eliz. Wks. 1860, 481 King Henry the Eighth was engaged in a new amour. 1673Dryden Marr. à la Mode ii. i, Intrigue, Philotis, that's an old phrase; I have laid that word by: amour sounds better. 1678Butler Hudibr. iii. i. 679 Few of either sex dare marry, But rather trust, on tick, t'amours. 1790C. M. Graham Lett. on Educ. 144 Criminal amours are in general censured in these works. 1876Freeman Norm. Conq. I. iv. 252 The amours or doubtful marriages of the Norman Dukes.
▪ II. † aˈmour2 Obs.
[a. OFr. ameor, ameour:—L. amātōr-em lover; mod.Fr. aimeur.]
A lover.
c1300K. Alis. 951 Mony child was faderles: Mony lady les hire amoúre. |