hedonist

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Honorable mention: The Accidental Hedonist, written with flair by one Kate Hopkins.

From Time Magazine Archive

I do not like," he said once, "to be called a Hedonist.

From Visions and Revisions A Book of Literary Devotions by Powys, John Cowper

Thus an Hedonist cannot be Altruist to boot; and, trying to combine the two characters, the Utilitarian is committed to a self-contradiction.

From Moral Philosophy by Rickaby, Joseph , S. J.

A Hedonist of academic type, repelled by a vulgar intonation, Gissing himself is manifestly the man in exile.

From The House of Cobwebs and Other Stories by Gissing, George

Lathrop was already tired of these delights; his essentially Hedonist temper was re-asserting itself.

From Delia Blanchflower by Ward, Humphry, Mrs.