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1775, Robert Jephson, “The Hotel”, in Braganza. A Tragedy., Dublin: Messrs. Exshaw, Sleater, Potts, Chamberlaine, Williams, Wilson, Husband, Porter, Walker, Jenkin, Flyn, and Hillary, page 41; republished as “The Hotel”, in The English and American Stage, volume VI, New York, N.Y.: David Longworth,, 1807, act II, scene II, pages 31–32:
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!
1810 September, “Gil Blasa fine gentleman”, in The Adventures of Gil Blas, of Santillane, Abridged, Leominster: Salmon Wilder, for Isaiah Thomas, Jun., page 70:
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.’
1905, Havelock Ellis, Studies in the Psychology of Sex: Sexual Selection in Man, page 240:
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.
1991, M. C. Beaton, His Lordship’s Pleasure (The Regency Intrigue Series), New York, N.Y.: RosettaBooks, published 2011, →ISBN:
“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.
“amor” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
“amor” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
“amor” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
“amor” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
Tantus est igitur innatus in nobis cognitionis amor et scientiae, ut nemo dubitare possit quin, ad eas res hominum, natura nullo emolumento invitata rapiatur.
And so, the desire for understanding and knowledge is so great, no one can doubt that, in human topics, there's a way to dissuade human nature from attainment (of knowledge).
Omne adeo genus in terris hominumque ferarumque et genus aequoreum, pecudes pictaeque uolucres, in furias ignemque ruunt: amor omnibus idem.
Thus everywhere every type of people and beasts, whether those of water, livestock, or those portrayed flying, are ruined into fury and fire: sex is the same to all.
aut quam sidera multa, cum tacet nox, / furtivos hominum vident amores: / tam te basia multa basiare / vesano satis et super Catullo'st
or as many as the stars, when the night is silent, watching people's secret love affairs: for you to kiss these many kisses / would be more than enough for frenzied Catullus...
“amor”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“amor”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
amor in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
amor in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
to feel affection for a person: in amore habere aliquem
to feel affection for a person: amore prosequi, amplecti aliquem
to be fired with love: amore captum, incensum, inflammatum esse, ardere
to banish love from one's mind: amorem ex animo eicere
somebody's darling: amores et deliciae alicuius
to be some one's favourite: in amore et deliciis esse alicui (active in deliciis habere aliquem)
“amor”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
“amor”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray