amorist

[ am-er-ist ]

/ ˈæm ər ɪst /

a person who is devoted to love and lovemaking.

a person who writes about love.

Origin of amorist

1575–85; < Latin amor love + -ist

am·o·ris·tic, adjective

amora, amoral, amorc, amoretto, amorino, amorist, amorite, amoroso, amorous, amorph, amorphia

"I know," she said, and something in her voice touched the trained sensibilities of the Amorist.

The Incomplete Amorist |E. Nesbit
A memory of the days when Izaak was an amorist, and shone in love ditties, appears thus.

Andrew Lang's Introduction to The Compleat Angler |Andrew Lang
This letter, if it had been written by an amorist, would seem either base or priggish.

The Art of Letters |Robert Lynd
In the account of this celebrated Arabian amorist, we come upon a very pretty story.

A Boswell of Baghdad |E. V. Lucas

It consists but seldom in any regularity of feature, for their appeal is to the amorist rather than to the sculptor in marble.

The Land of The Blessed Virgin; Sketches and Impressions in Andalusia |William Somerset Maugham

amorist

/ (ˈæmərɪst) /

a lover or a writer about love