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
His friend, John M. Manly, wrote in the preface to his "Poems and Plays": "He was an epicure of life, a voluptuary of the whole range of physical, mental, and spiritual perfections."
From The Circus, and Other Essays and Fugitive Pieces by Kilmer, Joyce
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