voluptuary

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Behind his impassioned rages, his enormous ambition, his gigantic self-confidence, there lay not the indulgent ease of a voluptuary, but the trivial tastes, the conventional domesticity, of the petty-bourgeois.

From The Guardian • Sep. 5, 2016

Gumprecht Weiss — we learn his name later on — had once been a voluptuary but in middle age now prefers an ascetic, philosophical life.

From Washington Post • Jan. 21, 2015

You probably don't picture a notorious voluptuary, a man who just last year was chowing on double burgers right before a conference on obesity.

From Salon • Dec. 28, 2010

The eponymous regent, the Prince of Wales who ruled when his father, George III, went mad, was “a voluptuary of the highest order.”

From New York Times • May 16, 2010

That Petronius was deeply tainted is only too probable from his associations, although Tacitus implies that he was rather a fastidious voluptuary than a gross debauchee.

From Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius by Dill, Samuel