Synonyms for voluptuary


Grammar : Adj, noun
Spell : vuh-luhp-choo-er-ee
Phonetic Transcription : vəˈlʌp tʃuˌɛr i

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Définition of voluptuary

Origin :
  • c.1600 (n. and adj.), from Latin voluptuarius, from voluptarius, from voluptas "pleasure" (see voluptuous).
  • adj sybaritic
  • noun sybarite
Example sentences :
  • Bigot, a voluptuary in every sense, craved a change of pleasure.
  • Extract from : « The Golden Dog » by William Kirby
  • Fair lady, he went onyour mother was, like yourself, a voluptuary.
  • Extract from : « The Sorrows of Satan » by Marie Corelli
  • Voluptuary as he was, Ulick didn't feel a spark of erotic emotion for his companion.
  • Extract from : « Painted Veils » by James Huneker
  • A great governor may be one-fourth voluptuary, but he must be three-parts politician.
  • Extract from : « The African Colony » by John Buchan
  • An epicure and a voluptuary, he had lived in extraordinary luxury.
  • Extract from : « Old and New London » by Walter Thornbury
  • A voluptuary in love, he professes not that delicacy which refines all its joys.
  • Extract from : « The Sylph, Volume I and II » by Georgiana Cavendish
  • He abandoned himself to the sensations of love and the sensations of an artist like a voluptuary.
  • Extract from : « Old and New Masters » by Robert Lynd
  • In his riot of the senses there was more of the athlete than of the voluptuary.
  • Extract from : « Robert Browning » by C. H. Herford
  • Such a word was a mockery in the mouth of such a voluptuary.
  • Extract from : « Bought and Paid For » by Arthur Hornblow
  • It was the face of a voluptuary in the presence of his desire.
  • Extract from : « Jason » by Justus Miles Forman

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