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a lover — especially with a partner cheating on their husband or wife

She doesn't believe in divorce, but she does believe in paramours.

Shall I believe That unsubstantial death is amorous; And that the lean abhorred monster keeps Thee here in dark to be his paramour?
William Shakespeare -- Romeo and Juliet
But now Claudia has released you, yet still yon stay with her, and stay bound to her as your paramour,' he said.
Anne Rice -- Interview with the Vampire
QUINCE Yea, and the best person too: and he is a very paramour for a sweet voice.
William Shakespeare -- A Midsummer Night's Dream
She is Thais the prostitute, who answered her paramour when he said, 'Have I great thanks from thee?
Dante Alighieri -- Dante's Inferno
And this is Ellaria Sand, mine own paramour.
George R.R. Martin -- A Storm of Swords
Yes, they were admirers, paramours, sweethearts.
Ransom Riggs -- Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children
Byron says that he is all right—Byron Bunch has helped the woman's paramour sell his friend for a thousand dollars, and Byron says that it is all right.
William Faulkner -- Light in August
I mistrust that you come from her paramour.
Harriet Jacobs -- Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
"Pippa's paramour," Felicity says, drawing out the word.
Libba Bray -- A Great and Terrible Beauty
Thou hast kept the secret of thy paramour.
Nathaniel Hawthorne -- The Scarlet Letter
Though I might be persuaded to keep you for my paramour.
George R.R. Martin -- A Feast For Crows
Because the sergeant and his paramour are beyond our reach.
Robert Ludlum -- The Bourne Ultimatum
I have forgotten the exact fantasies I entertained about my first paramour.
William Styron -- Sophie's Choice
And so who that useth paramours shall be unhappy, and all thing is unhappy that is about them.
Thomas Malory -- Le Morte D'Arthur
Then they went to supper, and the damosel loved Palomides as paramour, but the book saith she was of his kin.
Thomas Malory -- Le Morte D'Arthur, Volume II
No he must die, for you have sworn You'd be my paramour.
Margaret Atwood -- Alias Grace
For had I but dreamed of the daughter of Torquil living in foul communion with the murderer of her father, the sword of a true Saxon had found thee out even in the arms of thy paramour!
Sir Walter Scott -- Ivanhoe
Her paramour should be an ugly gnome, Where four roads cross, in wanton play to meet her: An old he-goat, from Blocksberg coming home, Should his good-night in lustful gallop bleat her!
Goethe (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe) -- Faust
How here lieth Lanceor the king's son of Ireland, that at his own request was slain by the hands of Balin; and how his lady, Colombe, and paramour, slew herself with her love's sword for dole and sorrow.
Thomas Malory -- Le Morte D'Arthur, Volume I

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