Definition of "luxuria" [luxuria]

• Self-indulgent sexual desire (personified as one of the deadly sins). (noun)

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• "Writing in the second century AD, the biographer Suetonius employed the word luxuria to characterize the degenerate behavior of Emperor Nero, whose habits he said included traveling with a thousand carriages pulled by mules shod with silver, and entertaining in his wildly extravagant palace, which he had overlaid with gold and fitted with pipes to spray perfume on his guests."
• "But even before the Christian era, luxuria had been a favorite term to describe despicable excesses, notably of certain Roman emperors."
• "French had borrowed the word from Medieval Latin, in which luxuria was sometimes personified as Lust or Gluttony or Greed."