Meaning & use
Amative
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Relating to or full of romantic love; amorous.
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The poet's amative verses were addressed to a lover he never named.
Their amative glances across the room left little doubt about their feelings.
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Amative derives from the Latin 'amare,' to love, and was once used in 19th-century phrenology to describe a supposed brain faculty governing sexual and romantic desire.
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