All 3 Uses of
amorous
in
John Adams, by McCullough
- But the appeal of young women was exceedingly strong, for as an elderly John Adams would one day write, he was "of an amorous disposition" and from as early as ten or eleven years of age had been "very fond of the society of females."†
Subsection 1.1.2amorous = romantic or sexual
- All this was transpiring when the amorous spirits of the whole group appear to have been at a pitch.†
Subsection 1.1.2 *
- "My real crime," Hamilton wrote, "is an amorous connection with his wife."†
Subsection 3.9.3