All 3 Uses
amorous
in
Antony and Cleopatra
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- —Now I feed myself With most delicious poison:—think on me, That am with Phoebus' amorous pinches black, And wrinkled deep in time?†
Scene 1.5 *amorous = romantic or sexual
- —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.†
Scene 2.1
- 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.†
Scene 2.2
Definitions:
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(1)
(amorous) romantic or sexual
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)