luxurity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: luxurities
Etymology: From luxur(ious) + -ity.
Senses: examples: text: Cicero deſcribeth the murthering of Roſcius, the luxurity and ryots of Anthony, with many others moe.
ref: 1577, Henry Pecham, The Garden of Eloquence: Conteyning the Figures of Grammer and Rhetorick, […], London: […] H. Iackson:
text: […] a ſhame were it therefore for vs to imitate ſo painfullie, as many doe in eloquence Cicero, in philoſophy Ariſtotle, in lawe Iuſtinian, in Phyſicke Galen, for worldlie wiſedome yea to imitate, as moſt doe, the French in vanity, the Dutch in luxurity, in brauery the Spaniſh, the Papiſts in indolatry in impietie and all impuritie of life the Atheiſtes, and not to followe our ſauiour Chriſt in heauenlie wiſedome, and in al godlines of maners.
ref: 1580 July 30, Thomas Rogers, “The first Epistle of the translator touching Christian imitation in general, to the faithful imitators of our Sauior Christ in England S.”, in Of the Imitation of Christ. Three, Both for Wisedome, and Godlines, Most Excellent Bookes, Made 170. Yeares since by One Thomas of Kempis, […], London: […] Peter Short, […], published 1596:
text: To whom Fulco aunſwered: no, and like your grace I lie not, but ſay truth: for you haue iii. daughters, which continually frequẽt your court, and wholy poſſeſſe your perſon: and ſuch iii. whoores & naughty packes as neuer the like hath bene heard off. I meane miſchieuous pride, gredy couetouſnes and filthy luxurity.
ref: 1583 October, Iohn Foxe, Actes and Monuments of Matters Most Speciall and Memorable, Happenyng in the Church, with an Vniuersall History of the Same, […], [London]: [ […] Iohn Daye, […]], page 249:
text: […] men effeminated and women impudent, vſing ritches as ſeruants to wickedneſſe, and preuenting natures appetite with want on luxurity; […]
ref: 1600, Clement Edmunds, Observations, vpon the Five First Bookes of Cæsars Commentaries, Setting Fourth the Practise of the Art Military, in the Time of the Roman Empire. […], London: […] Peter Short, […], page 5:
text: Harford; which having passed with a soft current, he taketh great pleasure to behold the fertility of the soil, the richest of this province, which for its fruitful glebe and luxurity thereof is distinguished from the other parts by the name of the South-Hams.
ref: 1630, Thomas Westcote, edited by George Oliver and Pitman Jones, A View of Devonshire in MDCXXX, with a Pedigree of Most of Its Gentry, Exeter: William Roberts, […], published 1845:
text: Doth God ſpare your Cattle? and do ye uſe them only for your own pomp, and voluptuouſneſſe? then it is pitty that God ſhould ſpare any thing for you, which will ſpare nothing for others: If God give you the fat and the ſweet, ye ſhould ſend part to them for whom nothing is provided; ſo, God gives you Gattle to relieve the neceſſities of them, which have no Cattle: not much Cattle, for much covetouſneſſe, or much ſtate, or much luxurity; but much Cattle, for much charity, and much compaſſion; or elſe ye are but Drovers, and Horſe-riders, or Kitchin-men, and not true Houſe keepers.
ref: 1657, Thomas Reeve, God’s Plea for Nineveh: or, London’s Precedent for Mercy. Delivered in Certain Sermons within the City of London., London: […] William Wilson, for Thomas Reeve, […], page 341:
text: […] the Earth produces not only all the common Neceſſaries for Life in great Plenty, but gives us over, and above all thoſe Delicacies, which ſerve for Delight and Luxurity; ſuch as the brighteſt Gems, the moſt Aromatick Spices, the moſt Balſamick and Salubrious Drugs, the fineſt Silks, and richeſt Metals; […]
ref: 1709, “Asia”, in Thesaurus Geographicus: or, The Compleat Geographer. Part the Second. Being the Chorography, Topography, and History of Asia, Africa and America. […], 3rd edition, London: […] A. and J. Churchill, and T. Childe, pages 1–2:
text: Loud howled the wintry winds outside, but they were not felt in the triclinium of Petronius. All was heat there, and light, and luxurity, and gaiety, and the revel ran higher and higher.
ref: [1859], “Change of Masters”, in The Cave in the Hills; or, Cæcilius Viriathus. A Tale of the Early British Church., London: John Henry and James Parker, […], page 71:
text: Mere lads, or beardless young men, appear to do the most of the Wall street work now, and they place no limit upon the ministering sources of their luxurity.
ref: 1869 October 9, W. R. Linn, editor, The Star of the Valley, volume XI, number 39, Newville, Pa.: J. B. Morrow, […], page [2], column 3:
text: He should be taken to stand for impurity as well as luxurity, the sinister twins of the day.
ref: 1911, Edw[ard] W[inslow] Gilliam, The Foundling, J. P. Bell Company, page 69:
text: Probably the greatest part of the population is though sometimes unconscious - in the service of these people whose richness enables them to live in luxurity.
ref: 1924, Woodworkers, Painters & Buildingworkers Journal, page 109:
text: But Dr. Tugwell, Dr. Lovett, and many of the other outstanding exponents of Marxian ideologies have passed from the public pay rolls into the comparative luxurity of private life.
ref: 1947 April 24, Congressional Record: Proceedings and Debates of the 80ᵗʰ Congress, First Session, volume 93, part 3, Washington, D.C.: United States Government Printing Office, page 4006, column 1:
text: If you like the smell of a fireplace, the space a daylight basement portrays, the luxurity of carpet everywhere and all the other nicities^([sic]) to squeeze love into . . . Try McGuire Development’s homes.
ref: 1976 June 5, Fairbanks Daily News-Miner, volume LXXIV, number 133, Fairbanks, Alaska, page A-19:
text: The Depression may have also played a role in the declining luxurity of spectator entertainment. […] The declining luxurity concurs with Owen’s (1970) findings that leisure and recreation expenditure as a percentage of GDP increased substantially between 1900 and 1930, but then remained stable, at about 5 per cent of GDP, until at least the 1970s.
ref: 2008, Gerben Bakker, Entertainment Industrialised: The Emergence of the International Film Industry, 1890–1940, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 150:
glosses: The quality of being luxurious.
examples: text: How deeply would the luxurities of Europe be curtailed if the supplies of other countries were withheld?
ref: 1844, Thomas Williams, A Sketch of the Relations Which Subsist Between the Three Kingdoms of Nature: The Mineral, Vegetable, and Animal: […], […] J. Williams, […], Swansea; and […] Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, […], London. […], page 25:
text: If the parasites of the society do not want any more the luxurities of Madrid then they are able to bath their nerves in the town upon the Seine, and to reach it for this purpose within a day’s time.
ref: 1924, Woodworkers, Painters & Buildingworkers Journal, page 109:
text: An increasing demand for luxurities and exotica (in Mesopotamia) obtainable in Anatolia and probably beyond, led to this form of trade.
ref: 2002, Ørjan Engedal, The Nordic Scimitar: External Relations and the Creation of Elite Ideology, Archaeopress, →ISBN, page 32, column 2:
text: Beware of luxurities, the dress of the unbelievers, and the wearing of silk clothes, for The Messenger of Allah “Allah’s blessing and peace be upon him” prohibited wearing silk clothes, except for this much, and The Messenger of Allah “Allah’s blessing and peace be upon him” raised his index finger and middle finger joining them together.
ref: 2005, Al-Imām Muslim Ben Al-Ḥajāj Al-Naysābūri, translated by Muḥammad Mahdi Al-šarif, Ṣaḥīḥ Muslim: The Authentic Hadiths Of Muslim, volume III, Beirut: Dar Al-Kotob Al-Ilmiyah, →ISBN, page 662:
glosses: Something that is luxurious.
Synonyms: luxuriosity
luxuriousness