gormandizing

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The author of this hedonistic, gormandizing prayer is a Christian clergyman of serene faith.

From Time Magazine Archive

Angela succeeds in getting the keys of the convent from Gil-Perez, the porter, who had also left his post, seduced by his love of gormandizing and had come to pay court to Claudia.

From The Standard Operaglass Detailed Plots of One Hundred and Fifty-one Celebrated Operas by Annesley, Charles, pseud.

"At all events, you might have brought away my epaulettes," replied he; "but you youngsters think of nothing but gormandizing."

From Peter Simple; and, The Three Cutters, Vol. 1-2 by Marryat, Frederick

But, amid gormandizing, Serlo entertained another plan, which he longed to have fulfilled.

From Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship and Travels, Vol. I (of 2) by Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von

He loved not the Captain, because his inexorable eye spied out in him two faults which to him were heartily intolerable, "the chronic ulcer of vanity and an unholy guzzling and gormandizing upon feelings."

From Titan: A Romance v. 1 (of 2) by Richter, Jean Paul Friedrich