Definition of "amative"

He was also confounded by its implication in Podson. Damme, the idea of that runt of a feller makin' up to a woman old enough to be his mother! Bradly banged pots about the stove, preparing the evening meal, to relieve himself of an outraged sense of propriety at Podson's amative presumption.

1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, page 151

His endearments were not amative or effete, but manly like Churchill's, and gave one a sense of being singled out, of having value.

1988, Alan Hollinghurst, The Swimming-Pool Library, paperback edition, London: Penguin Books, page 97