His form was what phrenologists call amative; and of these facts we have some very curious proofs.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fanaticism; Its Source and Influence, Illustrated by the Simple Narrative of Isabella, in the Case of Matthias, Mr. and Mrs. B. Folger, Mr. Pierson, Mr. Mills, Catherine, Isabella, &c. &c. A Reply to W. L. Stone, with the Descriptive Portraits of All the Parties, While at Sing-Sing and at Third Street.--Containing the Whole Truth--and Nothing but the Truth.] Reference

Phrenology confirms this; for her amative developments are singularly prominent.    From Wordnik.com.  [City Crimes or Life in New York and Boston] Reference

A similar thing has been seen to take place in those birds that are amative, as partridges and hens.    From Wordnik.com.  [On the Generation of Animals] Reference

Forty-second Street had been a sort of Hell's Gate, a place for the grotesquely amative intermingling of species.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gone for Good]

Nor are many persons sufficiently aware of the ruinous extent to which the amative propensity is indulged by married persons.    From Wordnik.com.  [Searchlights on Health: Light on Dark Corners A Complete Sexual Science and a Guide to Purity and Physical Manhood, Advice To Maiden, Wife, And Mother, Love, Courtship, And Marriage] Reference

The natures of both are alike, and any — the least — exercise of the amative function is an injury to one as to the other.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Ladies Book of Useful Information Compiled from many sources] Reference

She suspected, it seems, the real object of our last interview, when, you recollect, we indulged in a little amative dalliance.    From Wordnik.com.  [City Crimes or Life in New York and Boston] Reference

Moreover, you are a man of warm, affectionate nature, demanding a great deal of caressing and amative demonstration from your wife.    From Wordnik.com.  [How to Become Rich A Treatise on Phrenology, Choice of Professions and Matrimony] Reference

Just like the maquiladora plants, the amative establishments that served their employees operated on a twenty-four-hour work schedule.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mocking Program]

Every child should be kept pure and free from amative excitement and the least amative indulgence, which is unnatural and doubly hurtful.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Ladies Book of Useful Information Compiled from many sources] Reference

His skull was sharply cut and fine; with plenty, according to the phrenologists, both of the reflective and amative organs; and his poetry will bear them out.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 407, December 24, 1829] Reference

No language is strong enough to express the evils of amative excitement and unnatural indulgence before the age of puberty; and the dangers are so great that I see no way so safe as.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Ladies Book of Useful Information Compiled from many sources] Reference

VERY EARLY MARRIAGE, therefore, should be avoided, because the nervous force expended in amative indulgence is imperatively required in both sexes for developing the physical and mental faculties.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Ladies Book of Useful Information Compiled from many sources] Reference

But situated here he could not go so far as amative cruelty.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Woodlanders] Reference

The wife, though amative, confessed to another woman that she could not understand the attraction.    From Wordnik.com.  [Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 4 Sexual Selection In Man] Reference

The waiting was tedious, and having been long denied, the amative element could not brook further delay.    From Wordnik.com.  [The God of His Fathers: Tales of the Klondyke] Reference

Bending low until his mouth touched hers, he kissed her until her face glowed under the ardor of his amative caress.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mask A Story of Love and Adventure] Reference

They held that these functions were urinary, reproductive and amative, each separate and distinct in its use from the others.    From Wordnik.com.  [Woman and the New Race] Reference

But this amative mariner filled his jibs on another tack, and before his crew knew whither they were bound was well on his long traverse to Peru.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mystic Isles of the South Seas.] Reference

For that matter, though not amative to any considerable degree so far as I have discovered, I was never outside the atmosphere of women until now.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 14] Reference

You have shown with irresistible clearness how inseparably the combative and destructive instincts are bound up with the amative and vital ones in the human psyche.    From Wordnik.com.  [The world as i see it]

It has been already noticed that Mr. Pierson, though extremely modest in his deportment, was of an amative disposition, which increased the severity in the loss of his wife.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fanaticism; Its Source and Influence, Illustrated by the Simple Narrative of Isabella, in the Case of Matthias, Mr. and Mrs. B. Folger, Mr. Pierson, Mr. Mills, Catherine, Isabella, &c. &c. A Reply to W. L. Stone, with the Descriptive Portraits of All the Parties, While at Sing-Sing and at Third Street.--Containing the Whole Truth--and Nothing but the Truth.] Reference

His amative enthusiasm, at which he is himself laughing, and his clever, imaginative, humorous ways, contrast strongly with the sincere tenderness and dignified quietness of the woman.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Philanderer] Reference

Japanese amative poetry is noted for its delicate fancies and plays on words exceedingly difficult, if not impossible, of translation, or even of expression, to one unacquainted with the language.    From Wordnik.com.  [Evolution Of The Japanese, Social And Psychic] Reference

He was an average sample of the good-natured, warm-blooded, proud-spirited, amative, alimentive, convivial, young and early-middle-aged man of the decent-born middle classes everywhere and any how.    From Wordnik.com.  [Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy] Reference

There was something in Phillotson's tone now which seemed to show that his three months of remarriage with Sue had somehow not been so satisfactory as his magnanimity or amative patience had anticipated.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jude the Obscure] Reference

His words had so startled her that, in her surprise and annoyance, she imagined him in a condition of semi-ambitious and semi-amative ebullition, and she dreaded to think what strange irruptions might ensue.    From Wordnik.com.  [Without a Home] Reference

How can you get men with strong amative propensities to live like anchorites?”.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Ladies Book of Useful Information Compiled from many sources] Reference

"The vital powers, being thus kept in abeyance, the amative sensations are either not developed, or destroyed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 1 The Evolution of Modesty; The Phenomena of Sexual Periodicity; Auto-Erotism] Reference

"The excessively amative character of some passages is designated as almost blasphemous when supposed to be addressed by.    From Wordnik.com.  [Primitive Love and Love-Stories] Reference

"Mademoiselle de Nevers had some fortune of her own, of course, but it was not large; it was not the feast for which the amative Mantuan had hungered.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Duke's Motto A Melodrama] Reference

They shall be alimentive, amative, perceptive.    From Wordnik.com.  [Leaves of Grass [1867]] Reference

He was poor; he was amative; he was unsatisfied.    From Wordnik.com.  [Avril Being Essays on the Poetry of the French Renaissance] Reference

They shall be alimentive, amative, perceptive.    From Wordnik.com.  [Leaves of Grass] Reference