The vocabulary of love and of religion became one and the same: mystery and enchantment were identified, and the negotiations of the earth, and the revolutions of the heavens, were blended with the witchery of amative sway.
He was amative or constructive, and at the same time he not only possessed but liked to exercise lucidity of thought.
She suspected, it seems, the real object of our last interview, when, you recollect, we indulged in a little amative dalliance.
Phrenology confirms this; for heramative developments are singularly prominent.
Dividing the sexual relation into two branches, the amative and propagative, the amative or love-relation is first in importance, as it is in the order of nature.
The amative part of the sexual relation, separate from the propagative, is eminently favorable to life.
The amative and propagative functions are distinct from each other, and may be separated practically.
The amative function is regarded merely as a bait to the propagative, and is merged in it.
And where such love is returned, it is returned in a kind of protective love, rather than an amative love--or at any rate as a love in which the protective and amative characters are closely united.
How can you get men with strong amative propensities to live like anchorites?
Every child should be kept pure and free from amative excitement and the least amative indulgence, which is unnatural and doubly hurtful.
No man can enter upon an amative relation with a woman, except in marriage, without manifest injustice to his future wife, unless he allow her the same liberty; and also without a great wrong to the woman, and to her possible husband.
The natures of both are alike, and any—the least—exercise of the amative function is an injury to one as to the other.
