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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
luxuriate
verb
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A lot of people like to luxuriate in the idea that this is a very liberal city.
▪ Classical literature is a polite literature luxuriating in endless prevarication and self-indulgence.
▪ Donna enjoyed her meal, luxuriating in the warmth of the carriage.
▪ Even the rulers of this planet of Stalinvast, luxuriating high up in their hives, must take a very partial view.
▪ So, after luxuriating in its hair shirt for a few days, the City would have sold sterling anyway.
▪ They worked with a will, luxuriating in the feel of the sun on their bare backs.
▪ To stay and luxuriate in ordinary emotions and sensations means that the contemplative is trapped in our normal limitations.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Luxuriate

Luxuriate \Lux*u"ri*ate\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Luxuriated; p. pr. & vb. n. Luxuriating.] [L. luxuriatus, p. p. of luxuriari, -are, to luxuriate. See Luxury.]

  1. To grow exuberantly; to grow to superfluous abundance. `` Corn luxuriates in a better mold.''
    --Burton.

  2. To feed or live luxuriously; as, the herds luxuriate in the pastures.

  3. To indulge with unrestrained delight and freedom; as, to luxuriate in description.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
luxuriate

1620s, "to indulge in luxury," from Latin luxuriatus, past participle of luxuriare "have to excess," figuratively "run riot, be dissolute, indulge to excess," from luxuria "excess, rankness, luxuriance" (see luxury). Related: Luxuriated; luxuriating.

Wiktionary
luxuriate

vb. (context intransitive English) To enjoy luxury.

WordNet
luxuriate
  1. v. become extravagant; indulge (oneself) luxuriously [syn: wanton]

  2. enjoy to excess [syn: indulge]

  3. thrive profusely or flourish extensively

Usage examples of "luxuriate".

My accommodation is unique--a kura, or godown, in a large conventional garden, in which is a bath-house, which receives a hot spring at a temperature of 105 degrees, in which I luxuriate.

And when the Worcester lay alongside the New Mole in Gibraltar, taking in fresh supplies and waiting for the levanter to blow out, the strong east wind that prevented her from passing the Strait into the Mediterranean, he sat luxuriating in the sun in the stern-galley, his bandaged feet on a stool, a glass of fresh orange-juice in his hand, and Professor Graham by his side: for although the Scotchman was a grey, somewhat positive, humourless soul he had read a great deal, and now that he had overcome at least some of his initial reserve he was a grateful companion, a man of obvious parts, and in no way a bore.

She held him at constant field again, through that contact, and tipped him back to duoconsciousness, so that his awareness of her went deep, deep into her body, luxuriating in its nager while at the same time he retained his keen, hypoconscious awareness of her touch.

The scamp was luxuriating in his own imaginings or reminiscences, much less of a lover and far more of a rhapsodist than he suspected.

Unlike the terebinth oracle, however, this tree luxuriated with fresh green foliage and offered the cumbers notches up the trunk and into the green fastnesses, which twinkled with sunlit sparrows building nests.

She groaned and released his neck to fall back, arching and stretching, luxuriating in the sinful delight of a bath.

He stood there with the rain pelting his upturned face, luxuriating in the clean, pure, undistorted moisture.

As the new men ranked the cage wagons and tethered the uncaged animals in the backyard, Aleksandr Banat bustled about among them, issuing trivial and unnecessary orders, luxuriating in being now the crew chief of fully seventeen underlings.

Their courtship equaled or even surpassed what fabled lovers from Shaksperean, Chaucerian, and a whole host of other bygone tales had supposedly luxuriated in and was as close to an adventure in paradise as anyone could imagine.

Men deprive themselves of the time to luxuriate in fantasies and desires that are personal and individuated and frequently turn to the generic visuals of porn to catalyze the process.

There were few questions about Judaism I could answer easily, and no matter how many books I read, no text could illuminate the theological rain forest where the tenets of that complex and hairsplitting faith luxuriated and multiplied like papayas.

I ordered squab on a mesclun bed from a prison-rescued waiter known to me alone as Charlie-Charlie, also when I navigated for my clients the complex waters of financial planning, above all when before her seduction by my enemy Graham Leeson I returned homeward to luxuriate in the attentions of my stunning Marguerite, when transported within the embraces of my wife, even then I carried within the frame houses dropped like afterthoughts down the streets of New Covenant, the stiff faces and suspicious eyes, the stony cordialities before and after services in the grim great Templethe blank storefronts along Harmony Streettattooed within me was the ugly, enigmatic beauty of my birthplace.

I ordered squab on a mesclun bed from a prison-rescued waiter known to me alone as Charlie-Charlie, also when I navigated for my clients the complex waters of financial planning, above all when before her seduction by my enemy Graham Leeson I returned homeward to luxuriate in the attentions of my stunning Marguerite, when transported within the embraces of my wife, even then I carried within the frame houses dropped like afterthoughts down the streets of New Covenant, the stiff faces and suspicious eyes, the stony cordialities before and after services in the grim great Temple-the blank storefronts along Harmony Street-tattooed within me was the ugly, enigmatic beauty of my birthplace.

I twitted her as I pushed myself back till I was crammed inside her to the very hilt, wanting that luxuriating completeness of being thoroughly and fully housed inside her warm narrow quivering grotto.

For several miles above its mouth, the Mississippi presents no objects more interesting than mud banks, monstrous bulrushes, and now and then a huge crocodile luxuriating in the slime.