Definition of "amorous"

Breezes blowing from beds of iris quickened her breath with their perfume; she saw the tufted lilacs sway in the wind, and the streamers of mauve-tinted wistaria swinging, all a-glisten with golden bees; she saw a crimson cardinal winging through the foliage, and amorous tanagers flashing like scarlet flames athwart the pines.

1907 August, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, “Afterglow”, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, page 168

UUho when he ſhal embrace you in his armsUUil tell how many thouſand men he ſlew.And when you looke for amorous diſcourſe,Will rattle foorth his facts of war and blood: […]

c. 1587–1588, [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire, London: Scolar Press, 1973, Act III, scene ii

Long were to tell the amorous aſſayes, And gentle pangues, with which he maked meeke The mightie Mars, to learne his wanton playes:

1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto XI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, page 572

There was no tune to it, only amorous gruntings like those of some old satyr who had furnished music for Circe's revels.

1929, Robert Dean Frisbee, The Book of Puka-Puka, Eland, published 2019, page 218