paramour
suomi-englanti sanakirjaparamour englannista suomeksi
rakastaja
rakastajatar
paramour englanniksi
A person who is the object of one's love, especially in an affair or romance; a lover; also, a sexual partner.
(syn)
(RQ:Spenser Faerie Queene)
(RQ:Milton Poems) / To vvanton vvith the Sun her luſty Paramour.
(RQ:Burke Regicide Peace)
(RQ:Scott Ivanhoe) these very halls, to have lived the paramour of their murderer, the slave at once and the partaker of his pleasures, was to render every breath which I drew of vital air, a crime and a curse.
A person (especially someone who is not one's spouse) with whom one has an illicit or secret affair; also , one with whom a married person has an adulterous affair.
(hypo)
(ux)
(RQ:Edward Hall Lancastre & Yorke)
(RQ:Drayton England's Heroical Epistles)
(RQ:More Iniquity)
(RQ:Macaulay History of England) appeared with dauntless front, accompanied by his paramour (quote-gloss), his wife's sister.
(quote-book)
(RQ:Telegraph)’s vital, venomous action movie’|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20191117025337/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/films/0/grimsby-review-sacha-baron-cohens-vital-venomous-action-movie/|passage=The action scenes are deafening and punchily staged by director (w) ((w)), though I wish he'd set more time aside to spend with Nobby, his paramour Dawn ((w)), their shaven-headed brood, and friends.
A woman who is the object of a knight's love, and who he fights for.
(RQ:Harvey Pierces Supererogation) ''aduocate'': (..) He may declare his deere affection to his Paramour; or his pure honeſtye to the vvorld; (..)|footer=A figurative use.
(RQ:Jonson Chloridia)
(quote-book)|chapter=Of Womens Apparell|title=A Booke of Notes and Common Places, with Their Expositions, Collected and Gathered out of the Workes of Diuers Singular Writers, and Brought Alphabetically into Order.(nb...)|location=London|publisher=(...) East|Thomas East|page=1171|pageurl=https://archive.org/details/bookeofnotescomm00marb/page/1171/mode/1up|oclc=228714816|passage=Clad you with y&868; ſilke of ſinceritie, with y&868; ſaten (quote-gloss) of ſanctitie, with the purple of probitie. Thus prune and pricke vp your ſelues, and God himſelfe ſhall be your paramour, ⁊c.
To have an illicit or secret affair with a person, especially someone who is not one's spouse.
(RQ:Shakespeare King Lear Q1)|brackets=on
(RQ:Cervantes Shelton Don Quixote)
(quote-book) For & Davies|Thomas Cadell and William Davies,(nb...), by Bensley|Thomas Bensley,(nb...)|pages=277–278 and 280|pageurl=https://archive.org/details/remainsofnithsda00crom/page/280/mode/1up|oclc=3790522|passage=(quote-gloss) A bridle shreded from the skin of an unbaptized infant, with bits forged in (w)’s armoury, possessed irresistible power when shaken above any living thing. (..) At midnight, his mistress cautiously approaching his bed-side, shook the charmed bridle over his face, saying ‘''Up Horsie'',’ when, to his utter astonishment, he arose in the form of a gray horse! (..) (quote-gloss) To ride post on the human body was a privilege enjoyed only by those who paramoured with Satan.
(quote-journal)|location=Edinburgh|publisher=(...) & Robinson|Archibald Constable & Company|volume=XI|page=723|pageurl=https://archive.org/details/sim_edinburgh-magazine-and-literary-miscellany_1822-12_11/page/723/mode/1up|column=1|oclc=221608863|passage=The dissection of Charlie Borthwick's character was instantly resumed by Mrs M'Kittrick, who declared that he might ha'e found better employment at hame, than paramouring wi' the like o' Widow M'Cauchie.
(quote-journal)|location=Dublin|publisher=Samuel J. Machen,(nb...)|volume=I, part 2|page=213|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=83cAAAAAYAAJ&pg=RA1-PA213|column=2|oclc=503803881|passage=The paramouring matron left / A babe and husband both bereft; (..)|footer=(small)
(quote-journal)|volume=XXXVII|issue=CCXXI|page=320|pageurl=https://archive.org/details/atlanticmonthly3718unse/page/320/mode/1up|column=1|oclc=624525874|passage=I do not think I am fit to marry, to make an obedient wife or affectionate mother; my imagination is paramoured with me, and would disqualify me, I think, for the every-day, matter-of-fact cares and duties of the mistress of a household and the head of a family.
Of loving, etc.: out of or through romantic feeling or sexual desire; passionately.
(RQ:Elyot Governour) (w), doughter of XII Auletes|Ptolomee late kinge of Egypt (whome Ceſar (quote-gloss) in his lyfe helde for his Concubine) the ſame lady Antoni (quote-gloss) (with whome Octauiane (quote-gloss) deuided the empire) loued alſo peramours, abandonynge his wyfe, whiche was ſuſter to Octauian.
(RQ:Scott Tales of the Crusaders)
(RQ:Bulwer-Lytton Harold)
(non-gloss): out of or through devotion or kindness; as a favour or kindness.
(RQ:Speed Historie of Great Britaine)|pages=851–852|pageref=851|para=138|passage=The Lord Chiefe Iuſtice ſtood vp, and forbad the proceedings, alotting ''Paramour'' the Lands vvith the ſatiſfying of the ''plaintifes'', and thereupon commanded ''Nailor'' to giue ''Thorn'' againe his Gauntlet, vvhich he vnvvillingly did; and ſo the Combate being ended, vve may haue leaue to proceed.
In a loving or sexual way; amorously, passionately.
(RQ:Chaucer Canterbury Tales)
(RQ:Mlry MrtDrthr)
In a caring or kind way; affectionately.
(non-gloss): please.
An illicit romantic or sexual partner; a (l).
(non-gloss)
''used by a female person'': Christ as the object of one's devotion or love; also, ''used by a male person'': the Mary as the object of one's devotion or love.