All 10 Uses
amorous
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Madame Bovary
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- By moonlight in the garden she recited all the passionate rhymes she knew by heart, and, sighing, sang to him many melancholy adagios; but she found herself as calm after as before, and Charles seemed no more amorous and no more moved.†
Chpt 1.7 *amorous = romantic or sexual
- "Here are some pretty Easter daisies," he said, "and enough of them to furnish oracles to all the amorous maids in the place."†
Chpt 2.8
- Then, having gazed at him for a few moments with an amorous and humid look, she said hurriedly— "Ah!†
Chpt 2.9
- She became herself, as it were, an actual part of these imaginings, and realised the love-dream of her youth as she saw herself in this type of amorous women whom she had so envied.†
Chpt 2.9
- It was in the arbour, on the same seat of old sticks where formerly Leon had looked at her so amorously on the summer evenings.†
Chpt 2.10amorously = in a sexual or romantic manner
- Her eyelids seemed chiselled expressly for her long amorous looks in which the pupil disappeared, while a strong inspiration expanded her delicate nostrils and raised the fleshy corner of her lips, shaded in the light by a little black down.†
Chpt 2.12amorous = romantic or sexual
- He was to send his letters to Mere Rollet, and she gave him such precise instructions about a double envelope that he admired greatly her amorous astuteness.†
Chpt 3.3
- All the sensations of her first tenderness came back to her, and her poor aching heart opened out amorously.†
Chpt 3.8amorously = in a sexual or romantic manner
- Emma went on, with dainty little nods, more coaxing than an amorous kitten— "You love others, confess it!†
Chpt 3.8amorous = romantic or sexual
- First upon the eyes, that had so coveted all worldly pomp; then upon the nostrils, that had been greedy of the warm breeze and amorous odours; then upon the mouth, that had uttered lies, that had curled with pride and cried out in lewdness; then upon the hands that had delighted in sensual touches; and finally upon the soles of the feet, so swift of yore, when she was running to satisfy her desires, and that would now walk no more.†
Chpt 3.8
Definitions:
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(1)
(amorous) romantic or sexual
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)