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amenous

amenous adjective: pleasant, agreeable.

Adjective

amenous

  1. (archaic, possibly, uncommon) Pleasant, agreeable.
    • […] the most effulgent in English Literature, not because it was rich and amenous, but because of its intense happiness. The little pictures which Baring has left to posterity glow with the warm afternoon light of a Terborch — an appropriate light for a society which was gracefully, if a little...1974, The Downside Review, volume 92, page 161
    • "AND so, my child," said Red Samael, smiling, "so I now find you, of your own accord, leaving your dream castle." "And you find me likewise," Diego replied courteously, "more grateful than I can say for your kindness in enabling me to enter this castle." "Yet you have not chosen, I infer, to become...2003 [?], James Branch Cabell, The Devil's Own Dear Son, page 175

Examples of amenous in a sentence

  • […] the most effulgent in English Literature, not because it was rich and amenous, but because of its intense happiness.1974, The Downside Review, volume 92, page 161:
  • Whose mind was none other but the pass the time […] in the amenous varietie of over reading and revoluting many volumes and sundry books of divers sciences and strange matters.2021 [edition; original: ???], Evan Evans, Some Specimens of the Poetry of the Ancient Welsh Bards, quoting an older work

Origin of amenous

From or at least related to amene + -ous.

Questions about amenous

What does amenous mean?
Amenous means pleasant, agreeable.
How do you use amenous in a sentence?
[…] the most effulgent in English Literature, not because it was rich and amenous, but because of its intense happiness.
What part of speech is amenous?
Amenous is an adjective.

Words near amenous in the dictionary

  1. amenorrhœa
  2. amenorrhœal
  3. amenorrhœas
  4. amenorrhœic
  5. amenorrhϾ
  6. amenous
  7. amens
  8. amensal
  9. amensalism
  10. amensalistic
  11. amensh

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