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Paramour
//ˈpæɹ.əˌmʊɚ// adv, noun, verb
Definitions
Adverb
- 1 Passionately, out of sexual desire. not-comparable, obsolete, usually
Noun
- 1 An illicit lover, either male or female. dated
"to run away with a paramour"
- 2 a woman who cohabits with an important man wordnet
- 3 The Virgin Mary or Jesus Christ (when addressed by a person of the opposite sex). obsolete
- 4 a woman's lover wordnet
Verb
- 1 To go with a paramour; to have an affair.
"The paramouring matron left / A babe and husband both bereft;"
Etymology
Etymology 1
From Middle English paramour, paramoure, peramour, paramur, from Old French par amor (“for love's sake”). The modern pronunciation is apparently an Early Modern English readaptation of the French.
Etymology 2
From Middle English paramour, paramoure, peramour, paramur, from Old French par amor (“for love's sake”). The modern pronunciation is apparently an Early Modern English readaptation of the French.
Etymology 3
From Middle English paramour, paramoure, peramour, paramur, from Old French par amor (“for love's sake”). The modern pronunciation is apparently an Early Modern English readaptation of the French.
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