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Meanings of epicureanism in English

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Usage of epicureanism in English
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The passage from pantheism to epicureanism is not a long one.
Mystics and Saints of Islam
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His weak side is his epicureanism, with its tinge of grossness.
Amiel's Journal: The Journal Intime of Henri-Frédéric Amiel
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It is devoid of Omar's mysticism and epicureanism, and appallingly synthetic.
The Complete Works of Brann, the Iconoclast — Volume 10
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I had thrown off the perfumed garments of epicureanism, the vesture of my servitude.
Simon the Jester
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Her instinctive epicureanism demanded that the scene of these evocations should not be sordid.
Sacrifice
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Besides his egotism and his epicureanism, the dear uncle had another passion-toplay backgammon.
International Short Stories: French
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That is the secret of the truest epicureanism.
The Guide to Reading — the Pocket University Volume XXIII
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Is not asceticism superior epicureanism, fasting, refined gormandising?
Over Strand and Field: A Record of Travel through Brittany
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Although Froude enjoyed with avidity the conversation of his chosen friends, he was not satisfied with intellectual epicureanism.
The Life of Froude
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Loving frankness and truth, he threw all disguises aside, and became the exponent of materialistic epicureanism naked and unashamed.
Among Famous Books
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But it was Benham who stood between Prothero and that rather coarsely conceived epicureanism that seemed his logical destiny.
The Research Magnificent
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But what this movement really offers under its new catchword is simply a subtler form of epicureanism, a finer self-indulgence.
Christianity and Ethics: A Handbook of Christian Ethics
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Years of isolation, and a certain epicureanism of taste, from which necessity had never taken the fine edge, had made him a little intolerant.
A Lost Leader
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He cannot bear William Hermans any longer because of his epicureanism and his lack of energy, to which he, Erasmus, certainly was a stranger.
Erasmus and the Age of Reformation
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Epicureanism, in its pleasures or in its speculations, is virtually atheism.
Beacon Lights of History, Volume 3 part 1: The Middle Ages
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The system of philosophy called Epicureanism was founded by a Greek named Epicurus.
Early European History
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