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pleasurist

noun

Etymology

From pleasure + -ist.

  1. derived from *pleh₂-k-✻
  2. derived from placeō — “to please, to seem good”
  3. derived from plesir
  4. inherited from plaisir
  5. suffixed as pleasurist — “pleasure + ist”

Definitions

  1. Someone devoted to worldly pleasure.

    • Live happy in the Elysium of a virtuously composed mind, and let intellectual contents exceed the delights wherein mere pleasurists place their paradise.

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