amorosity ? Obs.
(æməˈrɒsɪtɪ)
Also 5 amorouste, 7 amourosity.
[a. OFr. *amourousté (cf. pousté); afterwards refashioned after mod. words in -osity.]
The quality of being amorous; love, fondness. (Not confined to sexual love.)
| 1485 Caxton Paris & V. 3 Parys as yet knewe nought of amorouste. 1611 Chapman May Day Plays 1873 II. 382 Come away, you'll be whipt anone for your amourosity. 1677 J. Webster Witchcr. xvi. 309 The soul may have a far greater amorosity to stay in some body that is lively, sweet and young. 1742 in Bailey. 1830 Galt Laurie Todd (1849) vii. viii. 338 He whispered to me the warmth of his amorosity. |