innamorato

plural innamoratos

1. alternativeAlternative form of inamorato.

   If a wife be caught sinning, she and her innamorato are put to death by the husband or his friends.

   1829, P[eter] Dillon, “Occurrences from Tonga to the Island of Rothuma, and Thence to Tucopia and Mannicolo”, in Narrative and Successful Result of a Voyage in the South Seas, Performed by Order of the Government of British India, to Ascertain the Actual Fate of La Pérouse’s Expedition, […], volume II, London: Hurst, Chance, and Co., […], page 136

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   Her innamorato, who came hither very ſlenderly equipt, has ſent for his baggage to London, which, in all probability, will not arrive in time for the wedding; […]

   1793 [1771], Tobias Smollett, “To Sir Watkin Phillips, Bart. at Oxon.”, in The Expedition of Humphry Clinker, volume II, London: […] H[enry] D[elahoy] Symonds, […]; and T. Kay, […], page 179

   “Sir,” said the amiable damsel, (wiping with the tail of her petticoat a tear which started to her eye, upon hearing such scurvy epithets applied to her innamorato,) “How can you?”

   1820, John Laurens Bicknell, “Sarah Lloyd; a Burlesque Novel”, in Original Miscellanies, in Prose and Verse, London: T[homas] Cadell and W[illiam] Davies, […]; and W[illiam] Blackwood, Edinburgh, chapter VI, page 69

   They had supped at the saloon, of infamous celebrity in company with the female, to whom we have alluded, and who unfortunately left the fish shop time enough before her innamorato to excite a fatal passion in the bosom of the complainant.

   1831 February, X. [pseudonym], “The Merchant’s Daughter”, in The Calcutta Magazine and Monthly Register, 1831 volume I (Original Papers), number XIV, Calcutta: Samuel Smith and Co. […], chapter III, page 108

   He then takes her to Paris, where her uneducated head betrays her heart, and she prepares a world of “moral suffering” for her justly jealous husband. In a duel with her innamorato he is wounded, on which he separates from her without éclat, though with much pain, and resorts to travelling, but finds her on his return enjoying a criminal notoriety in Paris, which urges him to obtain a formal divorce.

   1832 June 23, “Foreign Review. Esquisses de la Souffrance Morale. Par Edouard Alletz. Tome II. Paris.”, in The Original; a Weekly Miscellany of Humour, Literature, and the Fine Arts, number 17, London: […] [F]or the Proprietors, by G. Cowie, […], page 269, column 1

   This however did not satisfy the lady; and having gone the utmost lengths towards her innamorato, she insisted on a divorce in all the forms, and a legal marriage with the youth she loved.

   1834, William Godwin, “Forman and Others”, in Lives of the Necromancers: or, An Account of the Most Eminent Persons in Successive Ages, Who Have Claimed for Themselves, or to Whom Has Been Imputed by Others, the Exercise of Magical Power, London: Frederick J. Mason, […], page 410