O foule luste, O luxurie, lo thin ende!
Nought oonly that thou feyntest mannes mynde,
But verrayly thou wolt his body schende.
Chaucer, The Man of Lawes Tale (Morris, ii. p. 198).
Luxury and lust fasten a rust and foulness on the mind, that it cannot see sin in its odious deformity, nor virtue in its unattainable beauty.—Bates, Spiritual Perfection, c. 1.
Luxury, all superfluity and excess in carnal pleasures, sumptuous fare or building; sensuality, riotousness, profuseness.—Phillips, New World of Words.
She knows the heat of a luxurious bed.
Shakespeare, Much Ado about Nothing, act iv. sc. 1.
Again, that many of their Popes be such as I have said, naughty, wicked, luxurious men, they openly confess.—Jackson, The Eternal Truth of Scriptures, b. ii. c. 14.
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