luxuriate

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Borrowed from Latin lūxuriātus, from lūxuriō.

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): /lʌɡˈʒʊəɹ.i.eɪt/
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Verb[edit]

luxuriate (third-person singular simple present luxuriates, present participle luxuriating, simple past and past participle luxuriated)

  1. (intransitive) To enjoy luxury, to indulge.
    Luxuriate in the wonderful service of our five-star hotel.
    • 1976 September, Saul Bellow, Humboldt’s Gift, New York, N.Y.: Avon Books, →ISBN, page 376:
      He luxuriated in anger, and he kept accounts.
    • 2019 March 20, Ryan Lizza, “The Esquire Interview: Mayor Peter Buttigieg”, in Esquire[1]:
      But fundamentally I think it’s a sound framework, and it creates the right sense of urgency in that we can kind of luxuriate in a debate over what the right gear might be to do carbon targets, but scientifically the right time to do it was yesterday.
  2. (intransitive) To be luxuriant; to grow exuberantly.

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Latin[edit]

Participle[edit]

lū̆xuriāte

  1. vocative masculine singular of lū̆xuriātus