amor

noun

1. An asteroid that orbits between the orbits of Earth and Mars.
2. (alt-of, archaic, nonstandard)Archaic spelling of amour.

   “Ienkin had knowledge, and ſaw you in your Shepheard apparels, and was make ambulations after you hither, out of meere amors and affections as her was true Sentilman.”

   “Don Ped. That all the care I took of myself should be thrown away—never exposing myself to the night air; never fatiguing myself beyond a gentle perspiration, so careful of my diet, so regular in my hours, so chaste in my amors [originally amours], and after all this, in the evening of my days to have a long spado run through my guts, and look like a blue-breech’d fly with a corking pin sticking in it!”

   “In this manner I succeed in my amors, and would advise thee to take the same method.”

   “‘Dulce, will you go to the masquerade-ball to night?’ said I to my lesser-half, on a bright evening during the gayest part of the ‘carnival season.’ / ‘No, my amor,’ answered she; ‘I am ill this evening; do n’t go out to-night, but stay by my side, and let your cheering presence save a doctor’s fee.’”

   “But even in the midst of my love affairs I always retained sufficient sense to criticise the moral and intellectual calibre of the women I loved, and I held strong views on the advisability of mental and moral sympathies and congenial tastes existing between people who married. In my amors I had hitherto found no intellectual equality or sympathies.”

name

1. A surname.
2. A locality in the Shire of Baw Baw, south eastern Victoria, Australia.