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/vəˈlʌptʃʊəɹi/ · noun
One whose life is devoted to sensual appetites; a pleasure-seeker, a sensualist..
But Mrs. Cole, in oppoſition to this, aſſured me that the gentlemen I ſhould be preſented to, were, by their rank and taſte of things, infinitely ſuperior to the being touch'd with any glare of dreſs, or ornaments, ſuch as ſilly women rather confound, and overlay, than ſet off their beauty with; that theſe veteran voluptuaries knew better than not to hold them in the higheſt contempt, […]
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.
St. Clare, who was in heart a poetical voluptuary, smiled as Miss Ophelia made her remark on his premises, […]
Another Greek, the historian Megacleides, singles out Heracles as the supreme voluptuary.
"I told you so!" he said to himself under his breath, and breathing deeply like a voluptuary he advanced towards his victim.
Dawn Reynolds was an eighteen-year-old alabaster beauty with cobalt eyes and the figure of a ripe voluptuary.
She cast a knowing, amused eye over her surroundings, and shared the pleasures on her plate with the enthusiasm of a born voluptuary.
For as it hath beene well obſerued, that the Arts which flouriſh in times, while vertue is in growth, are Militarie: and while vertue is in State are Liberall; and while vertue is in declination, are voluptuarie; ſo I doubt, that this age of the world, is ſomewhat vpon the deſcent of the wheele; with Arts voluptuarie, I couple practiſes Iocularie; for the deceiuing of the ſences, is one of the pleaſures of the ſences.
Use voluptuary when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Voluptuary means One whose life is devoted to sensual appetites; a pleasure-seeker, a sensualist..
Common synonyms include voluptuarian, bon viveur, epicure, epicurean.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
But Mrs. Cole, in oppoſition to this, aſſured me that the gentlemen I ſhould be preſented to, were, by their rank and taſte of things, infinitely ſuperior to the being touch'd with any glare of dreſs, or ornaments, ſuch as ſilly women rather confound, and overlay, than ſet off their beauty with; that theſe veteran voluptuaries knew better than not to hold them in the higheſt contempt, […]
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