Amorous vs Loved - What's the difference?
amorous | loved |
Inclined or having a propensity to love, or to sexual enjoyment.
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*:Breezes blowing from beds of iris quickened her breath with their perfume; she saw the tufted lilacs sway in the wind, and the streamers of mauve-tinted wistaria swinging, all a-glisten with golden bees; she saw a crimson cardinal winging through the foliage, and amorous tanagers flashing like scarlet flames athwart the pines.
Indicating love or sexual desire.
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Of or relating to, or produced by, love.
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(lb) Affected with love; in love; enamored.
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(love)
Being the object of love.
* 1997', Charlie W. Shedd, ''How to Make People Really Feel '''Loved : And Other Life-Giving Observations , Vine Books, ISBN 1569550131.
* 1999', Valerie Grove, ''Laurie Lee: The Well-'''Loved Stranger , Penguin Books (2001), ISBN 0140276882.