luxuriosityとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

luxuriosity (uncountable)

1. (rare) The quality of being luxurious.
   • 1856, “[Progress of Medicine.] Art. I.—Rademacher, the Empirical Reformer in Germany; his Doctrine and Therapeutics: translated from the “Revue de Thérapeutique Médico-Chirurgicales” of August and September, 1855: by M. Morton Dowler, M. D., New Orleans.”, in Bennet Dowler, editor, The New Orleans Medical and Surgical Journal, volume XII, New Orleans, La.: […] [T]he Office of The Daily Delta, […], page 493:

     In some rare cases; colic, cardialgia, principally during digestion; coxalgia; virile impotence, and immoderate luxuriosity.

   • 1900, John J[oseph] Jennings, “[Herself and Others.] The Great American Hog.”, in Widow Magoogin, New York, N.Y.: G. W. Dillingham Co., […], page 40:

     Bad sesht to th’ langwid luxuriosity av thim same sait-howlding hogs!

   • 1902 March 15, “Around the Village. Some Current Gossip About Local Rubes.”, in The Bayonne Herald and Greenville Register, 35th year, number 2090, Bayonne, N.J., page 4, column 2:

     Never knowed th’ comfortableness an’ luxuriosity o’ bein’ one’s own boss till this winter.

   • 1917, The Hotel World: The Hotel and Travelers Journal, volume 85, page 13, column 2:

     The “cats” in the tent, the pretty pink servitors, the music, the tout ensemble, made a perfect picture of ruralistic luxuriosity, as a certain Pacific Coast hotel newspaper editor would describe it.

   • 1928 September 23, Sylvia Cornish, “The Gipsy Party”, in Sunday Mercury and Sunday News, number 507, [Birmingham], page 6, column 5:

     Talk about wallering in sinful luxuriosity, why it’s nothing to it.

   • 1931, Florence Riddell, Wives Win, J. B. Lippincott Company, page 41:

     A Hup of extreme velociousness and luxuriosity.

   • 1981 October, “[The Hollywood Informer] Informer Classified”, in National Lampoon, page 4, column 4:

     PRESTIGE LUXURIOSITY / Eggs Benedict Canyon / Fabulous 5 bedrooms, 13 bathrooms, 22 kitchens, 9 pools.

同意語

• luxuriousness
• luxurity