luxuriate

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English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin lūxuriātus, from lūxuriō.

Pronunciation

Verb

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.
    • 1988 December 25, Christopher Wittke, “A Landmark In Gay Cinematic History”, in Gay Community News, volume 16, number 24, page 8:
      But where the stage version luxuriated in the amount of time it could take to tell its story — in three one-act plays — its big-screen counterpart benefits from the need to economize in order to keep things moving.
    • 2019 March 20, Ryan Lizza, “The Esquire Interview: Mayor Peter Buttigieg”, in Esquire:
      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.

Further reading

Latin

Participle

lū̆xuriāte

  1. vocative masculine singular of lū̆xuriātus