paramour
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From Old French par amor (“through love”).
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paramour (not comparable)
- (obsolete) Of loving etc.: passionately, out of sexual desire; devotedly. [from 14th c.]
- 1485, Thomas Malory, Le Morte Darthur, Book X:
- And as for to say that I love La Beall Isode paramoures, I dare make good that I do, and that she hath my servyse abovyn all other ladyes, and shall have, all the terme of my lyff.
- 1485, Thomas Malory, Le Morte Darthur, Book X:
[edit] Noun
paramour (plural paramours)
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illicit lover
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