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volupty
Forms: 4–6 volupte(e, 6 voluptie, 6– volupty.
[a. OF. volupte (mod.F. volupté), or ad. L. voluptāt-, voluptas pleasure. Cf. volupt.]
Pleasure, delight. Freq. (esp. in earlier use) in pl.
(a)c1380Wyclif Sel. Wks. II. 380 So volupteis and rychesse of þe worlde maken þei to be loved. 1382― Titus iii. 3 We weren sum tyme vnwyse, vnbileueful, erringe, and seruynge to desyris, and dyuerse voluptees. c1450tr. De Imitatione ii. x. 52 Spiritual consolacions passiþ all þe delices of þe worlde, & all flesshly voluptes. 1483Caxton Cato 7 b, Seneque sayth that by voluptees and excesse comen foure euylles. 1540R. Hyrde tr. Vives' Instr. Chr. Wom. (1592) C j, It is so, because they bee ever among volupties & pleasures, & banketing. 1541Paynell Catiline xlii. 68 b, Syth ye at home giue your selfes to volupties and pleasures.
(b)1382Wyclif Ezek. xxxi. 9 Alle the trees of voluptee [1388 lust], that veren in paradise of God, sueden hym. 1508Fisher 7 Penit. Ps. xxxviii. Wks. (1876) 55 Whan Adam was set in paradyse a place of grete pleasure volupty & rest. 1526Pilgr. Perf. (W. de W. 1531) 232 To haue the fruicyon, that is full volupte & pleasure of y⊇ same. 1542Udall Erasm. Apoph. 137 For that the same caused in deede..delicious pleasure & voluptee. 1716Bolingbroke Refl. on Exile (1752) 475 note, The doctrine of volupty taught by Epicurus. c1730― Fragm. Wks. 1777 V. 402, I will crayon out a picture in imitation of those Cleanthes used to draw when he disputed against the partizans of volupty. 1799W. Taylor in Robberds Mem. (1843) I. 251 His poems are the sweetest blossoms of the rose-garden of volupty. 1929S. Leslie Anglo-Catholic xv. 216 Edward could see every brick in position with that strange microscopic vision which makes seeing a volupty of the eye.
personif.c1590J. Stewart Poems (S.T.S.) II. 206 Dame voluptie vith proud pernicious spreit. |