Meaning of Amor | Babel Free

Definitions

1. An asteroid that orbits between the orbits of Earth and Mars.
2. A surname.
3. A locality in the Shire of Baw Baw, south eastern Victoria, Australia.

Equivalents

Examples

“Don Ped. That all the care I took of myself should be thrown away—never exposing myself to the night air; never fatiguing myself beyond a gentle perspiration, so careful of my diet, so regular in my hours, so chaste in my amors [originally amours], and after all this, in the evening of my days to have⟳ a long spado run⟳ through my guts, and look⟳ like⟳ a blue-breech’d fly⟳ with a corking pin sticking in it!”

“In this manner I succeed⟳ in my amors, and would advise⟳ thee to take⟳ the same method.”

“‘Dulce, will you go to the masquerade-ball to night?’ said I to my lesser-half, on a bright evening during the gayest part of the ‘carnival season.’ / ‘No, my amor,’ answered she; ‘I am ill this evening; do n’t go out to-night, but stay⟳ by my side, and let⟳ your cheering presence save⟳ a doctor’s fee.’”

“But even in the midst of my love⟳ affairs I always retained sufficient sense⟳ to criticise the moral and intellectual calibre of the women I loved, and I held strong views on the advisability of mental and moral sympathies and congenial tastes existing between people who married. In my amors I had hitherto found no intellectual equality or sympathies.”

“The late Queen was a model⟳ in this respect⟳ about the amors of His Majesty, even allowing his mistresses to become⟳ her ladies-in-waiting.”

““Imply once more that I am of that breed⟳ who prefer⟳ amors with their own⟳ sex and I shall blow⟳ your head off,” he said levelly.[…]But he was merely an accomplished flirt and she was the impoverished Mrs. Carruthers, married to a drunk and a wastrel, and had spent a precious part of the evening allowing herself to be questioned about the amors of a rake by a silly girl.[…]I do not like⟳ to broadcast⟳ my amors about the town.”

“The years of safe sex and condoms being years hence, we live⟳ with a libertine fatalism and I’m too ignorant and horny to calibrate my amors to the female cycle.”

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