Amour vs Tryst - What's the difference?
amour | tryst |
(obsolete) Love, affection.
Courtship; flirtation.
* 1926 , , The Great Gatsby , Penguin 2000, p. 75:
A love affair.
* {{quote-news, year=1990, date=October 26, author=Jerry Sullivan, title=Field & Street, work=Chicago Reader
, passage=The amours of the greater scaup are, if anything, even more varied. }}
A lover.
* {{quote-news, year=2000, date=December 29, author=James McManus, title=The Winter Casino, work=Chicago Reader
, passage=Makes you wonder how they were able to see their amours , or their hands... }}
A prearranged meeting or assignation, now especially between lovers to meet at a specific place and time.
* Tennyson
* 2004 , , The Ancestor's Tale: A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Life , page 11
* 2005 , , The Pig that Wants to be Eaten: And 99 other thought experiments , ?91: “No one gets hurt”, page 271 (Granta; ISBN 1862078556, 9781862078550)
(obsolete) A mutual agreement, a covenant.
To make a tryst; to agree to meet at a place.
To arrange or appoint (a meeting time etc.).
To keep a tryst, to meet at an agreed place and time.
In obsolete terms the difference between amour and tryst
is that amour is love, affection while tryst is a mutual agreement, a covenant.As a verb tryst is
to make a tryst; to agree to meet at a place.amour
English
Noun
(en noun)- Perhaps Daisy never went in for amour at all – and yet there's something in that voice of hers….
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tryst
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Noun
(en noun)- The tenderest-hearted maid / That ever bided tryst at village stile.
- But, for the most part, we shall mark our progress to the dawn of life by the measure of those 40 natural milestones, the trysts that enrich our pilgrimage.
- If someone trusts you, what is lost if you betray that trust? As Scarlett is tempted to see it, sometimes nothing at all. If her husband remains ignorant of her tryst , then his trust in her will remain intact. ‘No one gets hurt’ runs her reasoning, so why not go ahead?
