Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A person whose life is given over to luxury and sensual pleasures; a sensualist.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Pertaining or contributing to luxury and sensual pleasure; promoting sensual indulgence.
- Given to sensual indulgence; voluptuous: as, voluptuary habits.
- noun pl. voluptuaries (-riz). A man given up to luxury or the gratification of the appetite and other sensual indulgences; a sensualist.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A voluptuous person; one who makes his physical enjoyment his chief care; one addicted to luxury, and the gratification of sensual appetites.
- adjective Voluptuous; luxurious.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun One whose life is devoted to
sensual appetites ; asensualist , a pleasure-seeker.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective displaying luxury and furnishing gratification to the senses
- noun a person addicted to luxury and pleasures of the senses
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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I had become what is called a voluptuary; and to be a voluptuary is a physical condition like the condition of a victim of the morphine habit, of a drunkard, and of
The Kreutzer Sonata 2003
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I had become what is called a voluptuary; and to be a voluptuary is a physical condition like the condition of a victim of the morphine habit, of a drunkard, and of a smoker.
The Kreutzer Sonata and Other Stories [a machine-readable transcription] 1890
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Philip was a voluptuary, that is, a completely selfish egotist, whose disposition and character resembled the rapier he wore, polished, keen, and brilliant, but inflexible and unpitying.
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Philip was a voluptuary, that is, a completely selfish egotist, whose disposition and character resembled the rapier he wore, polished, keen, and brilliant, but inflexible and unpitying.
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He himself, who has been described as a voluptuary, delighted in the endurance of cold and heat and of severe labor.
Famous Affinities of History — Volume 2 Lyndon Orr
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He himself, who has been described as a voluptuary, delighted in the endurance of cold and heat and of severe labor.
Famous Affinities of History — Complete Lyndon Orr
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But he had already realised the tragedy of the voluptuary, which is, after a little time, not that he must go on living, but that he cannot live in two places at once.
The Works of Max Beerbohm Max Beerbohm 1914
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*The part played in evolution by the voluptuary will be the same as that already played by the glutton.
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The part played in evolution by the voluptuary will be the same as that already played by the glutton.
Revolutionist's Handbook and Pocket Companion George Bernard Shaw 1903
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"Ah! The voluptuary, that is why he will not open the door."
Bohemians of the Latin Quarter Henry Murger 1841
bilby commented on the word voluptuary
"Though depicted as a decadent voluptuary, she remained celibate for more than half of her adult life."
- Michiko Kakutani, 'Cleopatra Behind Her Magic Mirror', New York Times, 5 June 1990.
September 6, 2009
utarcher commented on the word voluptuary
"His countenance bore as little the marks of self-denial, as his habit indicated contempt of worldly splendour. His features might have been called good, had there not lurked under the pent-house of his eye, that sly epicurean twinkle which indicates the cautious voluptuary."
- Description of the Prior of Jorvaulx Abbey in chapter two of 'Ivanhoe' by Sir Walter Scott
December 23, 2010