All 5 Uses
amorous
in
The Adventures of Augie March
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- The only way I could conceive, in my blood-loaded, picturesque amorousness.†
Chpt 8 *
- Her features rose very slightly from the surface of her face, fall of sense; her eyes were, I guess I'd say, amorous.†
Chpt 16amorous = romantic or sexual
- One of that old sister-society whose pins and barrettes and little jars and combs from Assyria or Crete lie so curious with the wavy prongs and stained gold and green-gnawed bronze in museum cases—those sacred girls laid in the bed by the priests to wait for the secret night visit of Attis or whoever, the maidens who took part in the hot annual battles of gardens, amorous ditty singers, Syrians, Amorites, Moabites, and so on.†
Chpt 22
- Then I became very heated and filled with amorous anxiety.†
Chpt 23
- When she starts to cry the pink of it begins to darken and darkens up into her eyes, which seemed so amorous the first time I saw them in Acatla.†
Chpt 26
Definitions:
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(1)
(amorous) romantic or sexual
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)