Paramour

Quick meaning: Paramour is a noun meaning A woman who is the object of a knight's love, and who he fights for.

Meaning

A woman who is the object of a knight's love, and who he fights for.

More Meanings

1. God as the object of a person's devotion or love.
2. (intransitive, chiefly dated) To have an illicit or secret affair with a person, especially someone who is not one's spouse.
3. Of loving, etc.: out of or through romantic feeling or sexual desire; passionately.
4. Used chiefly when addressing someone: out of or through devotion or kindness; as a favour or kindness.
5. A person (especially someone who is not one's spouse) with whom one has an illicit or secret affair; also (Scotland, US, law), one with whom a married person has an adulterous affair.
6. (chiefly archaic) A person who is the object of one's love, especially in an affair or romance; a lover; also, a sexual partner.

Example Sentences

to run away with a paramour

I ſue not novv, thy Paramoure to be, / But as a husband to be linck'd to thee.

It vvas no ſeaſon then for her [Nature] / To vvanton vvith the Sun her luſty Paramour.

Yes, in […] 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.

Word Forms

• paramours
• paramouring
• paramoured

Synonyms for paramour

Depending on context, synonyms include admirer, adorer, baby, beloved, courter, crush.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include doxy, courtesan, concubine, odalisque, lover, affinity.

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