| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| SYLLABICATION: | vo·lup·tu·ar·y |
| PRONUNCIATION: |  v -l p ch - r  |
| NOUN: | Inflected forms: pl. vo·lup·tu·ar·ies
A person whose life is given over to luxury and sensual pleasures; a sensualist: “an adventurous voluptuary, angling in all streams for variety of pleasures” (Thomas De Quincey). | | ETYMOLOGY: | French voluptuaire, from Old French, from Late Latin voluptu rius, variant of Latin voluptrius, devoted to pleasure, from volupts, pleasure. See wel-1 in Appendix I. | | OTHER FORMS: | vo·luptu·ary —ADJECTIVE
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