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amatorious

amatorious adjective: amatory.

Adjective

amatorious (comparative more amatorious, superlative most amatorious)

  1. (obsolete) amatory
    • a Prayer ſtol'n word for word from the mouth of a Heathen Woman praying to a Heathen God; and that in no ſerious book, but in the vaine amatorious Poem of Sir Philip Sidneys Arcadia,1649, J[ohn] Milton, chapter I, in ΕΙΚΟΝΟΚΛΆΣΤΗΣ [Eikonoklástēs] […], London: […] Matthew Simmons, […], →OCLC, page 12

Forms of amatorious

comparativemore amatorious
superlativemost amatorious

Origin of amatorious

From Latin amatorius, from amare (“to love”).

Words that rhyme with amatorious

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Questions about amatorious

What does amatorious mean?
Amatorious means amatory.
What part of speech is amatorious?
Amatorious is an adjective.

Words near amatorious in the dictionary

  1. amatorculists
  2. amatorial
  3. amatorially
  4. amatorian
  5. amatorily
  6. amatorious
  7. amatory
  8. Amatos
  9. amatoxin
  10. amatoxins
  11. amatrice

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