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▪ I. paramour, advb. phr. and n.|ˈpærəmʊə(r)|
Forms: see below.
[ME. a. OF. adv. phr. par amur, amour, -s, by or through love. From an early date the phrase was written as one word, and came to be treated (in Eng.) as a n., both in sense of ‘love’ and ‘beloved, lover’. This may have come partly through a mistaken analysis of the phrase to love paramour, -s.]
A. adv. phr. Forms: 3–4 par amur, -s, 4 par amour, -s, per amour, -s; paramur, -s, 4–6 paramour, -s (5 paramoure, -es, -is, 5–6 peramour, -s, -owre, 6 -owris, 5 (7) -ore).
†1. Through or by way of love; out of (your) love, for love's sake (cf. love n.1 7); sometimes in weakened sense, Of your kindness, as a favour, if you please. Obs.
Perh. sometimes orig. short for ‘for love of God’.
13..Sir Beues (MS. A.) 118 ‘Felawe’, a saide, ‘par amur: Whar mai ich finde þemperur?’ 13..Seuyn Sag. (W.) 1455 A! lat me in, sire, paramour! 13..Coer de L. 453 Tel me the sothe, I yow prey, Off these joustes, peramours. 14..Recovery of Throne by Edw. IV in Pol. Poems (Rolls) II. 280 He hathe deservid thancke amonge other paramour. 1611Speed Hist. Gt. Brit. ix. xxiv. §143 The Lord Chiefe Iustice stood vp, and forbade the proceedings, alotting Paramour the Lands, with the satisfying of the Plaintifes.
†2. For or by way of sexual love. Obs. (or arch.)
c1386Chaucer Sir Thopas 32 They moorne for hym paramour Whan hem were bet to slepe. 1825Scott Betrothed xxvii, She is one I could have doated to death upon par amours. 1848Lytton Harold vi. vi, Some infidel, to one of whose wives he sought to be gallant, par amours.
†b. Phrase. to love par amour (amours): (Usually) To love by way of (sexual) love, to love (a person of the opposite sex), to love amorously or as a lover, to be in love with; sometimes, to have a clandestine or illicit amour with.
In some later instances paramours may have been taken as n., and object of the vb.: cf. B. 2.
a1300Floriz & Bl. 486 Ho þat luueþ par amur And haþ þer-of ioye mai luue flures. a1300Cursor M. 52 For now is halden non in curs Bot qua þat luue can paramurs [later MSS. -ours, -ouris]. a1310in Wright Lyric P. xxxi. 91 Y lovede a clerk al par amours. 1375Barbour Bruce xiii. 485 He his sister paramouris Lufit. c1386Chaucer Knt.'s T. 297, I telle thee outrely ffor paramour I loued hire first er thow. c1410Sir Cleges 489 Sir Cleges..That I lovyd peramore. c1430Syr Gener. (Roxb.) 4553 He loueth paramoures som wight. 1430–40Lydg. Bochas viii. xxvii. (1558) 19 Aboue al women loued her peramour. 1483Caxton G. de la Tour L iij, To loue peramours eche other. 1531Elyot Gov. iii. xxii, The same lady [Cleopatra] Antoni..loued also peramours, abandonynge his wyfe. 1535Coverdale Baruch vi. 8 Like as a wench yt loueth peramours is trymly deckte. c1560A. Scott Poems (S.T.S.) iii. 46 And swa but pane ȝe may lufe paramowris. Ibid. xxix. 6 For mony men ar evill to ken, Þat luvis paramour, Wt fenȝeit mynd, fals and vnkynd, Bringis ȝow to dishonour. [1652Ashmole Theat. Chem. 200 Sche loveth him peramore and no other.]
B. n. Forms: 3– paramour, 4–5 -amours (5–6 -is; 4, 6–7 -or, 4, 8 -ore, 5–6 -oure, per-).
†1. Love; esp. sexual love, an amour. Obs.
c1350Will. Palerne 1412 He..layked him at likyng wiþ þat faire burde Pleyes of paramours vn-parceyued longe time, So sliliche, þat no seg souched non ille. c1386Chaucer Cook's T. 8 He was as ful of love & paramour As is the hyve ful of hony sweete. ― Merch. T. 206 By cause of leueful procreacion Of children..And nat oonly for paramour or loue. c1470Henryson Mor. Fab. iii. (Fox & Cock) 110 In all this warld was thair na kyndar thing; In paramouris he wald do ws plesing. a1586Montgomerie Misc. Poems l. 27 Pigmaleon, that ane portratour Be painting craft, did sa decoir, Himself thairwith in paramour Fell suddanlie, and smert thairfoir.
†b. In devotional use, Divine or celestial love: cf. 2 b. Obs.
13..Salut. Our Lady 45 in Minor Poems fr. Vernon MS. 135 Heil puyred princesse of paramour, Heil Blosme of Brere, Brihtest of ble.
2. A person beloved by one of the opposite sex; a ‘love’, a lover, a sweetheart; also of animals (quots. 1735, 1801) and fig. arch. and poet.
c1350Will. Palerne 1534 Mi perles paramours my pleye & my ioye, Spek to me spakli or i spille sone. 1393Langl. P. Pl. C. xvii. 107 A mayde for a mannes loue her moder for-sakeþ,..and gooþ forth with hure paramour. c1489Caxton Blanchardyn xxiii. 78 Ye knowe well my lady paramours, and that she is of your lynage. 1535Stewart Cron. Scot. (1856) II. 514 Ane fair ȝoung man, Hir peramouris quhilk in the tyme wes than. a1550Knight of Curtesy 45 in Ritson Metr. Rom. III. 195 His paramour she thought to be, Hym for to love wyth herte and minde, Nat in vyce but in chastyte. 1590Spenser F.Q. i. i. 9 The Willow, worne of forlorne Paramours. 1629Milton Nativity 36 To wanton with the Sun her lusty Paramour. 1735Somerville Chase iv. 58 Huntsman!..For ev'ry longing Dame select Some happy Paramour. 1801Southey Thalaba iv. i, Pale reflection..Of glow-worm on the bank, Kindled to guide her winged paramour. 1871R. Ellis Catullus lxi. 44 Lord of fair paramours, of youth's Fair affection uniter.
†b. Formerly, in devotional language, applied (by men) to the Virgin, and (by women) to Jesus Christ; sometimes also to God. Obs.
a1300Cursor M. 69 For-þi blisce [I] þat paramour..Hyr luue is ay ilike new. c1375Sc. Leg. Saints l. (Katerine) 1118 My dere lord Ihesu criste..þat is my luf and paramor. c1475Songs & Carols 15th C. (Warton Club) 48 To his moder then gan he [Christ] say,..My swete moder, myn paramour. 1492Ryman Poems lxvii. 2 in Archiv Stud. neu. Spr. LXXXIX. 235 [Mary to Christ] Myne owne dere sonne and paramoure. 1581Marbeck Bk. of Notes 1171 Thus prune and pricke vp your selues, and God himselfe shall be your paramour.
c. The lady-love of a knight, for whose love he did battle; hence, the object of chivalrous admiration and attachment. poet.
1503Dunbar Thistle & Rose 180 The commoun voce vpraiss of birdis small,..Welcome to be our princes of honour, Our perle, our plesans and our paramour. c1590Greene Fr. Bacon vi. 37 Suffice to me he's Englands paramour. 1593G. Harvey Pierce's Super. 33 He may declare his deere affection to his Paramour [i.e. Greene] or his pure honesty to the world. 1630B. Jonson Chloridia ad fin., Chloris, the queen of flowers:..The top of paramours.
3. An illicit or clandestine lover or mistress taking the place, but without the rights, of a husband or wife. Now, the illicit partner of a married man or woman.
c1386Chaucer Wife's Prol. 454 My fourthe housbonde was a reuelour This is to seyn he hadde a paramour. c1400Mandeville (1839) iv. 24 He seyde, he wolde ben hire lemman or paramour. 1483Caxton G. de la Tour L ij, Ones he was gone for to see his paramours in the wynter. a1548Hall Chron., Edw. IV 193 b, She might so fortune of his peramour and concubyne to be chaunged to his wyfe & lawfull bedfelow. 1598Drayton Heroic. Ep. vii. 175, I sue not now thy Paramour to bee, But as a Husband to be link'd to thee. 1664H. Morte Myst. Iniq. 257 Pranking up them⁓selves to allure their Paramours. 1816J. Scott Vis. Paris (ed. 5) 85 A woman can seldom possess a lover before marriage, and is as seldom without a variety of paramours after. 1832G. Downes Lett. Cont. Countries I. 224 A Russian princess..poisoned by Catherine II, who had her husband for a paramour.
▪ II. [paramour v.
‘to love’ is given in some Dicts. on the strength of the subjoined passage; but prob. ‘loueth’ has been accidentally omitted by the scribe.
c1450Merlin 47, I knowe a faire lady that Vter paramours. [Cf. Ibid. 9 That she loued the holy man paramours.] ] |