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Definition
romantic or sexual
- —Now I feed myself With most delicious poison:—think on me, That am with Phoebus' amorous pinches black, And wrinkled deep in time?1.5 — Act 1 Scene 5 — Alexandria. A Room in the Palace (36% in)
- —Menas, I did not think This amorous surfeiter would have donn'd his helm For such a petty war; his soldiership Is twice the other twain: but let us rear The higher our opinion, that our stirring Can from the lap of Egypt's widow pluck The ne'er lust-wearied Antony.2.1 — Act 2 Scene 1 — Messina. A Room in POMPEY'S house (66% in)
- The barge she sat in, like a burnish'd throne, Burn'd on the water: the poop was beaten gold; Purple the sails, and so perfumed that The winds were love-sick with them; the oars were silver, Which to the tune of flutes kept stroke, and made The water which they beat to follow faster, As amorous of their strokes.2.2 — Act 2 Scene 2 — Rome. A Room in the House of LEPIDUS (81% in)
There are no more uses of "amorous" in Antony and Cleopatra.
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