amenous en · ADJ
Etymology
From or at least related to amene + -ous.
Meanings
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(archaic, possibly, uncommon) Pleasant, agreeable.
"AND so, my child," said Red Samael, smiling, "so I now find you, of your own accord, leaving your dream castle." "And you find me likewise," Diego replied courteously, "more grateful than I can say for your kindness in enabling me to enter this castle." "Yet you have not chosen, I infer, to become its permanent tenant." "With the complete frankness, sir, which ought always to exist between father and son," said Diego, at his most amenous, "I must tell you that it did not impress me as a suitable residence for a middle-aged couple such as Catherine Mary and I have become.
2003 [?], James Branch Cabell, The Devil's Own Dear Son, page 175Whose mind was none other but the pass the time […] in the amenous varietie of over reading and revoluting many volumes and sundry books of divers sciences and strange matters.
2021 [edition; original: ???], Evan Evans, Some Specimens of the Poetry of the Ancient Welsh Bards, quoting an older work[…] the most effulgent in English Literature, not because it was rich and amenous, but because of its intense happiness. The little pictures which Baring has left to posterity glow with the warm afternoon light of a Terborch — an appropriate light for a society which was gracefully, if a little vaguely, awaiting its eventide.
1974, The Downside Review, volume 92, page 161: