? Obs. Also 5 amorouste, 7 amourosity. [a. OFr. *amourousté (cf. pousté); afterwards refashioned after mod. words in -OSITY.] The quality of being amorous; love, fondness. (Not confined to sexual love.)
1485. Caxton, Paris & V., 3. Parys as yet knewe nought of amorouste.
1611. Chapman, May Day, Plays, 1873, II. 382. Come away, you’ll be whipt anone for your amourosity.
1677. J. Webster, Witchcr., xvi. 309. The soul may have a far greater amorosity to stay in some body that is lively, sweet and young.
1742. in Bailey.
1830. Galt, Lawrie T. (1849), VII. viii. 338. He whispered to me the warmth of his amorosity.
