Definition of "amative" [am•a•tive]

• Relating to or inclined toward love, especially sexual love; amorous. (adjective)

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• "His form was what phrenologists call amative; and of these facts we have some very curious proofs."
• "The waiting was tedious, and having been long denied, the amative element could not brook further delay."
• "Mr. Anesko's writes of "thinly veiled homoeroticism" of James's letters to Andersen and elsewhere of their "undeniably amative nature.""