Amative vs Lascivious - What's the difference?
amative | lascivious |
Pertaining to love; amorous.
* 1898', 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. :
* 1988', His endearments were not '''amative or effete, but manly like Churchill's, and gave one a sense of being singled out, of having value. - , (Penguin Books, paperback edition, 97)
Wanton; lewd, driven by lust, lustful.
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*:The colonel and his sponsor made a queer contrast: Greystone [the sponsor] long and stringy, with a face that seemed as if a cold wind was eternally playing on it. […] But there was not a more lascivious reprobate and gourmand in all London than this same Greystone.