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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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