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Luxuriate

verb
(past & past part. luxuriated; pres. part. luxuriating)
1.
Become extravagant; indulge (oneself) luxuriously.  Synonym: wanton.
2.
Enjoy to excess.  Synonym: indulge.
3.
Thrive profusely or flourish extensively.





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"Luxuriate" Quotes from Famous Books



... After a great deal of gloomy and unsettled weather the genuine Andalusian summer has come upon us at last. The brilliancy of the sun and the azure of the heavens are perfectly indescribable. The people here complain sadly of the heat, but as for myself, I luxuriate in it, like the butterflies which hover about the macetas, or flowerpots, in the court. Hoping that you will present my remembrances to Mrs. Brandram, and likewise to all other dear friends, I remain Revd. and dear Sir, ...
— Letters of George Borrow - to the British and Foreign Bible Society • George Borrow
... her head, clasping her hands behind it as she laughed. She seemed to luxuriate as frankly in the heat and the dryness ...
— Golden Stories - A Selection of the Best Fiction by the Foremost Writers • Various
... that clustered about us. Under foot the russet moss was of astonishing depth and softness. One walks with care upon it, for the foot breaks through the thick matting that has in many cases spread from log to log, hiding treacherous traps beneath. The ferns luxuriate in this sylvan paradise; and many a beautiful shrub, new to us, bore flowers that blushed unseen until we made our ...
— Over the Rocky Mountains to Alaska • Charles Warren Stoddard
... to communicate her benefits to the forum. Neither the centralisation of wealth, nor that of knowledge, can now secure a nation against poverty and ignorance. People may starve, though the royal coffers are bursting with their weight of gold; they may be ignorant, though their chiefs luxuriate in the possession of unbounded knowledge. Rapid circulation of the currency has been found to constitute national wealth. A general diffusion of knowledge is the necessary condition of civilisation. Poesy is no longer content to dwell at court. Chemistry has chosen the ...
— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 62, No. 384, October 1847 • Various
... out of it. I have to think about those things, now that I've got time to worry. Things looks different ashore from what they do aflo't, with your own ship under you and hustlin' to make money." He gazed round the room again, and seemed to luxuriate ...
— The Skipper and the Skipped - Being the Shore Log of Cap'n Aaron Sproul • Holman Day


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