amative

Adjective

1. Pertaining to love; amorous.
   • 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. - 1893, George Bernard Shaw, The...
   • He was also confounded by its implication in Podson. Damme, the idea of that runt of a feller makin' up to a woman old enough to be his mother! Bradly banged pots about the stove, preparing the evening meal, to relieve...
   • His endearments were not amative or effete, but manly like Churchill's, and gave one a sense of being singled out, of having value. - 1988, Alan Hollinghurst, The Swimming-Pool Library, paperback edition, London:...