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Meanings of voluptuary in English

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sibarita

A person addicted to luxury and pleasures of the senses.

        sibarita

        Displaying luxury and furnishing gratification to the senses.

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              1
              This inscription was composed by a voluptuary of the school of Petronius.
              The Satyricon — Volume 06: Editor's Notes
              2
              Such a word was a mockery in the mouth of such a voluptuary.
              Bought and Paid For; From the Play of George Broadhurst
              3
              Perhaps it is, to the heaven of the modern sybarite, the ethical voluptuary.
              Light on the Path and Through the Gates of Gold
              4
              She appears in the strongest sense a voluptuary and sensualist, but without refinement.
              Mary Wollstonecraft
              5
              The voluptuary, that is why he will not open the door.
              Bohemians of the Latin Quarter
              6
              Bigot, a voluptuary in every sense, craved a change of pleasure.
              The Golden Dog
              7
              He was not a voluptuary nor a boaster nor a wit.
              Devereux — Volume 05
              8
              I had blithely handed him -thefamous seasoned voluptuary!-my virginity.
              The Memoirs of Cleopatra
              9
              Lucullus, autocrat and voluptuary as he was, governed his province well.
              Lectures and Essays
              10
              The thought of a voluptuary in pain is very terrible.
              The Works of Max Beerbohm
              11
              In Julius Caesar, a voluptuary and red with carnage, there were yet multitudinous virtues.
              A Hero and Some Other Folks
              12
              The irresolute voluptuary before whom these plans were laid could decide manfully upon neither.
              The Fall of the Moghul Empire of Hindustan
              13
              This former voluptuary preserved only the good side of gallantry.
              The Duchess of Berry and the Court of Charles X
              14
              Now the apostle may be a voluptuary without much conscience.
              Treatise on Parents and Children
              15
              His retired life was, in fact, that of a voluptuary.
              The Rise of the Dutch Republic — Volume 08: 1563-64
              16
              Though a coxcomb and a voluptuary, he seems to have had some fine qualities.
              The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume ...
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