51Թ

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amatory

[ am-uh-tawr-ee, -tohr-ee ]

adjective

  1. of or relating to lovers or lovemaking; expressive of love:

    amatory poems; an amatory look.

    Synonyms: , ,



amatory

/ ˌæməˈtɔːrɪəl; ˈæmətərɪ /

adjective

  1. of, relating to, or inciting sexual love or desire
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Other 51Թ Forms

  • a·ٴ۾·· adverb
  • d·a·ٴ۾· adjective
  • d·a·ٴr adjective
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of amatory1

1590–1600; < Latin ōܲ, equivalent to - (stem of to love) + -ōܲ -tory 1
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of amatory1

C16: from Latin ōܲ, from to love
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Lapine, making his feature film debut, doesn’t have the technique to turn this amatory whirl into a lyrical roundelay.

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Go ahead and take it to the next level with these two, minus the amatory innuendo.

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To the English ear it might sound like an inadvisable amatory practice involving gasoline, but in its original language it actually means a treasure chamber of the mind.

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With what “late-assembled court of morals”? “Biography is a collection of holes tied together with string, and nowhere more so than with the sexual and amatory life,” he writes.

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Living in daylight, the butterflies exchanged the drab, brown livery of many nighttime moths for a rich palette of colors, useful for broadcasting amatory signals to mates and warnings of toxicity to predators.

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