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voˈluptuousness
Also 7 voluptousnes, -tusnesse.
[f. as prec. + -ness.]
The quality of being voluptuous.
1. Addiction to sensuous pleasures; indulgence in pleasure and luxury.
1508Fisher 7 Penit. Ps. vi. Wks. (1876) 11 Our prophete..ferynge to offende almyghty god, syth that afore tyme he was ouercomen by his owne voluptuousnesse. 1531Tindale Expos. 1 John (1537) 48 Some call themselues dead, which lyue in all voluptuousnesse. 1560J. Daus tr. Sleidane's Comm. 56 b, They take your goods and spende them wickedly in pride, riot and voluptuousnes. 1614Purchas Pilgrimage iv. v. (ed. 2) 365 As their liues were burthened with voluptuousnesse, so they prepared for their deaths. 1638Sir T. Herbert Trav. (ed. 2) 340 They delight excessively in all sorts of games and voluptuousnesse. a1701Maundrell Journ. Jerus. (1721) 122 No place in the World can promise the Beholder at a distance greater voluptuousness. 1782Priestley Corrupt. Chr. II. x. 275 Complaints of their voluptuousness are without end. 1812G. Chalmers Dom. Econ. Gt. Brit. 329 We became more luxurious, and, as our voluptuousness increased, our industry diminished. 1860Adler Prov. Poet. xv. 328 The man who was tormented by voluptuousness was declared incapable of love. 1873Hamerton Intell. Life v. i. 170 Men of the English race are often grandly strong in resistance to every form of voluptuousness.
personif.1603J. Davies (Heref.) Extasie Wks. (Grosart) I. 91/1 In summe shee was such as Voluptusnesse With all her coulors cannot well expresse. 1639N. N. tr. Du Bosq's Compl. Woman i. 15 There are more who haunt the Schoole of Voluptousnes, then that of vertue.
transf.1768Woman of Honor III. 243, I could with great voluptuousness of scorn have spit in his face.
b. The quality of expressing voluptuous ideas.
1873Symonds Grk. Poets v. 129 The voluptuousness of æolian poetry is not like that of Persian or Arabian art.
2. Luxuriance, luxury, or refinement tending to gratify the senses or to impart sensuous pleasure.
1652Heylin Cosmogr. iii. 11 The Countrey very plentifull of all manner of fruites, even unto voluptuousnesse. 1729G. Shelvocke Artillery v. 354 He celebrated the Decennia with new Sorts of Games, with a new Kind of Pomp, and with the most exquisite Voluptuousness. 1800S. & Ht. Lee Canterb. T. IV. 380 The species of rustic voluptuousness his garden otherwise afforded. 1832Lytton Eugene A. i. vi, Softened by the quiet beauty and voluptuousness around him, Walter's thoughts assumed a more gentle dye. 1893E. F. Howe in Voice (N.Y.) 21 Sept., We have..the desert brought into voluptuousness by the development of great irrigation enterprises. |