Literary notes about Amatory (AI summary)
The term "amatory" is employed with remarkable flexibility in literature, often connoting elements of love, sexual passion, or courtship. In some works, it designates encounters or rendezvous imbued with romantic or erotic intent, as in the description of a secret meeting or a lover’s escapade ([1],[2],[3]). In other contexts, it characterizes an entire poetic or narrative genre, with authors exploring tender sentiments or satirizing amorous pursuits through verse and dialogue ([4],[5],[6]). Its use even extends into more expansive discussions, where the language of devotion and political or social conduct becomes intertwined with love’s rhetoric, thereby adding layers of meaning to both personal and public discourses ([7],[8],[9]).
- One day he was on his way by the back yards to an amatory interview.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of Short Stories by Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov - And so he had, the rascal, after what we discovered later to have been simply a distant amatory expedition.
— from Rose and Rose by E. V. (Edward Verrall) Lucas - Age and obesity had made her inapt for love, but she took a keen interest in the amatory affairs of the young.
— from The Moon and Sixpence by W. Somerset Maugham - So like a spiritual pit-a-pat, Or tiptoe of an amatory Miss, Gliding the first time to a rendezvous, And dreading the chaste echoes of her shoe.
— from Don Juan by Baron George Gordon Byron Byron - Next in artistic excellence to Meleager among the amatory poets is Straton, a Greek of Sardis, who lived in the second century.
— from Studies of the Greek Poets (Vol 2 of 2) by John Addington Symonds - His collection of amatory poems entitled Liebesfrühling contains some of the sunniest idyls in any language.
— from The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 105, July 1866 A Magazine of Literature, Science, Art, and Politics by Various - When a king is governed by a woman merely through his amatory propensities, good government is not probable, though even then there are exceptions.
— from The Subjection of Women by John Stuart Mill - The language of devotion and of amatory passion is often identical, and seems to serve equally well for either purpose.
— from Religion & Sex: Studies in the Pathology of Religious Development by Chapman Cohen - Many a man thinks he perfectly understands women, because he has had amatory relations with several, perhaps with many of them.
— from The Subjection of Women by John Stuart Mill
