Definition of amative
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: strongly moved by love and especially sexual love : amorous sense 1
A man of convivial and amorous habits, he was so amative that his temper was known to everyone in every village around. A greatest philanderer, to put it mildly, although aging.— Lara Biyuts
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: relating to or indicative of love : amorous sense 3
Most spectacularly, she claimed to have been tutored in the amative arts by an angel named Soph, the spirit of a deceased suitor she had once spurned.— Mathew N. Schmalz
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The first known use of amative was in 1633
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