luxuriate
English
editEtymology
editBorrowed from Latin lūxuriātus, from lūxuriō.
Pronunciation
edit- IPA(key): /lʌɡˈʒʊəɹ.i.eɪt/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
Verb
editluxuriate (third-person singular simple present luxuriates, present participle luxuriating, simple past and past participle luxuriated)
- (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.
- (intransitive) To be luxuriant; to grow exuberantly.
Further reading
edit- Douglas Harper (2001–2024) “luxuriate”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.
- “luxuriate”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
Latin
editParticiple
editlū̆xuriāte
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