adj. Of or relating to love, especially sexual love.
the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
adj. Pertaining to, producing, or expressing, sexual love.
The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
Pertaining to, producing, or supposed to produce love; expressive of love; amatorial: as, amatory poems.
Synonyms See amorous.
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adj. expressive of or exciting sexual love or romance
Word Usage
"Her subject was usually 'amatory' fiction, narratives of desire focussing on highly charged sexual episodes, concerned with love and seduction in all their guises."