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Luxuriate   Listen
verb
Luxuriate  v. i.  (past & past part. luxuriated; pres. part. luxuriating)  
1.
To grow exuberantly; to grow to superfluous abundance. " Corn luxuriates in a better mold."
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.





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"Luxuriate" Quotes from Famous Books



... back 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
... beating down through yet young leaves, made Drew brush his battered slouch hat to the flooring and luxuriate in the heat. Sometimes he didn't think he'd ever get the bite of last winter's cold out of his bones. The light pointed up every angle of jaw and cheekbone, making it clear that experience—hard experience—and not years had melted away boyish roundness of chin line, ...
— Ride Proud, Rebel! • Andre Alice Norton
... I should die under it. I revel in degradation. I luxuriate in self-contempt. My time is short, and I want to pass it away speedily. This life suits me, for I seldom have my senses, and there is only the early morning to dread. I think then—think, think, think. Until I can scrape together my first liquor ...
— The Chequers - Being the Natural History of a Public-House, Set Forth in - a Loafer's Diary • James Runciman
... larger area inclosed in a similar manner. Their inclosure was simply to secure them against the depredations of stray burros, so numerous about the village. When the crops are gathered in the autumn, several breaches are made in the low wall and the burros are allowed to luxuriate on the remains. Pl. LIX indicates the position of the large cluster of garden patches on the southeastern side of Zui. Fig. 110, taken from photographs made in 1873, shows several of these small gardens with their growing crops and a ...
— A Study of Pueblo Architecture: Tusayan and Cibola • Victor Mindeleff and Cosmos Mindeleff
... great appearance of toil and study, what is written at last with little felicity; but, in his comick scenes, he seems to produce, without labour, what no labour can improve. In tragedy he is always struggling after some occasion to be comick; but in comedy he seems to repose, or to luxuriate, as in a mode of thinking congenial to his nature. In his tragick scenes there is always something wanting, but his comedy often surpasses expectation or desire. His comedy pleases by the thoughts and the language, and his tragedy, for the greater part, by incident and action. ...
— The Works of Samuel Johnson in Nine Volumes - Volume V: Miscellaneous Pieces • Samuel Johnson


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