1775,Robert Jephson, “The Hotel”, inBraganza. A Tragedy.[…], Dublin:[…]Messrs. Exshaw, Sleater, Potts, Chamberlaine, Williams, Wilson, Husband, Porter, Walker, Jenkin, Flyn, and Hillary, page41; republished as “The Hotel”, inThe English and American Stage, volume VI, New York, N.Y.:[…]David Longworth,[…],1807, act II, scene II, pages31–32:
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 myamors [originallyamours], 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 Blas[…]a fine gentleman”, inThe Adventures of Gil Blas, of Santillane, Abridged, Leominster:[…]Salmon Wilder, for Isaiah Thomas, Jun., page70:
In this manner I succeed in myamors, 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, myamor,’ 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, page240:
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 myamors I had hitherto found no intellectual equality or sympathies.
The late Queen was a model in this respect about theamors 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, published2011,→ISBN:
“Imply once more that I am of that breed who preferamors 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 theamors of a rake by a silly girl.[…]I do not like to broadcast myamors 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 myamors to the female cycle.
Xavier Varela Barreiro, Xavier Gómez Guinovart (2006–2018) “amor”, inCorpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela:Instituto da Lingua Galega
Kristín Bjarnadóttir, editor (2002–2025), “amor”, inBeygingarlýsing íslensks nútímamáls [The Database of Modern Icelandic Inflection] (in Icelandic), Reykjavík: The Árni Magnússon Institute for Icelandic Studies
Tantus est igitur innatus in nobis cognitionisamor et scientiae, ut nemo dubitare possit quin, ad eas res hominum, natura nullo emolumento invitata rapiatur.
And so, thedesire 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 videntamores: / 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 secretlove affairs: for you to kiss these many kisses / would be more than enough for frenzied Catullus...
[...] quaeritur et nāscentis equī dē fronte revolsus / et mātrī praereptusamor.
[...] and [the priestess] requires alove-[charm], having been plucked from the forehead of a foal at birth before being snatched away by its mother. (This unusual use of “amor” is traditionally understood here to mean a magic charm orphilter, a reference to ancient belief in the magical properties of ahippomanes.)
“amor”, inCharlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879)A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“amor”, inCharlton T. Lewis (1891)An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
"amor", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’sGlossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
