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Definition of amatory in English: amatoryadjectiveˈamət(ə)riˈæməˌtɔri Relating to or induced by sexual love or desire. Example sentencesExamples - It is precisely because the characters' amatory trials are so real that we are moved by their final Mozartian resolution.
- By the same token, Bo Diddley taught the incorrect but unforgettable version of the amatory question: ‘Who Do You Love?’
- Even the delicate amatory trophy of Cupid's bow and arrow has moved away from chinoiserie and rococo sources.
- He had adventures - many amatory - in England and on the Continent.
- While his own amatory flames are being fanned, he looks back at others who have gone before him, particularly to the period before the second world war.
- Andrew Marvell takes this amatory literary tradition and transforms it so that it can be used to make intelligible the dynamics of a political and religious struggle.
- In a number of places in his work, Andrews suggests that the erotic / amatory impulse has become overwhelmed by consumerist images and the desires they invoke and create.
- As we have seen, Surrey, Cheke, and other poets reconstruct the efficacy of ritual practice and Catholic theology in amatory devotion.
- As a personal poet, he attacked enemies by name and described without inhibition his own amatory exploits.
- In short, Amiana proposes that writers of amatory fiction write something other than amatory fiction.
- He may have painted Madonnas beautifully but his first biographer Vasari suggested his death was not due to fever but to amatory excess.
- The spectacle of poetry used as an amatory tool is one of those historical legacies much in evidence when poetry goes public.
- But collectively they present a hazy picture of a luckless dreamer with unfortunate amatory judgment.
- They might have added that he had the amatory skills of Casanova.
- With the reference to raptures, Herrick returns to the amatory imagery that links profane, sacred, and poetic themes.
Synonyms sexual, erotic, amorous, romantic, sensual, libidinous, passionate, ardent, hot-blooded, sexy torrid informal randy, steamy, naughty
Origin Late 16th century: from Latin amatorius, from amator (see amateur). Rhymes declamatory, defamatory, exclamatory, inflammatory, proclamatory Definition of amatory in US English: amatoryadjectiveˈæməˌtɔriˈaməˌtôrē attributive Relating to or induced by sexual love or desire. Example sentencesExamples - With the reference to raptures, Herrick returns to the amatory imagery that links profane, sacred, and poetic themes.
- The spectacle of poetry used as an amatory tool is one of those historical legacies much in evidence when poetry goes public.
- In a number of places in his work, Andrews suggests that the erotic / amatory impulse has become overwhelmed by consumerist images and the desires they invoke and create.
- By the same token, Bo Diddley taught the incorrect but unforgettable version of the amatory question: ‘Who Do You Love?’
- It is precisely because the characters' amatory trials are so real that we are moved by their final Mozartian resolution.
- He may have painted Madonnas beautifully but his first biographer Vasari suggested his death was not due to fever but to amatory excess.
- In short, Amiana proposes that writers of amatory fiction write something other than amatory fiction.
- They might have added that he had the amatory skills of Casanova.
- Even the delicate amatory trophy of Cupid's bow and arrow has moved away from chinoiserie and rococo sources.
- While his own amatory flames are being fanned, he looks back at others who have gone before him, particularly to the period before the second world war.
- As a personal poet, he attacked enemies by name and described without inhibition his own amatory exploits.
- He had adventures - many amatory - in England and on the Continent.
- Andrew Marvell takes this amatory literary tradition and transforms it so that it can be used to make intelligible the dynamics of a political and religious struggle.
- But collectively they present a hazy picture of a luckless dreamer with unfortunate amatory judgment.
- As we have seen, Surrey, Cheke, and other poets reconstruct the efficacy of ritual practice and Catholic theology in amatory devotion.
Synonyms sexual, erotic, amorous, romantic, sensual, libidinous, passionate, ardent, hot-blooded, sexy
Origin Late 16th century: from Latin amatorius, from amator (see amateur). |