aesthete

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From Ancient Greek αἰσθητής (aisthētḗs, “one who perceives”).

He was very handsome, but rather coarse and vulgar; too much so to please an aesthete who blended with the desire for love the mysticism of an Annunciation. — The Red Lily — Complete, Anatole France
In the presence of these powerful and repulsive men, who were the princes of anarchy, he had almost forgotten the frail and fanciful figure of the poet Gregory, the mere aesthete of anarchism. — The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare, G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton
Not only did the daily press occupy itself with him--but grave men, aesthetes of high rank, found his acting so interesting that they wrote pamphlets about it and made it the subject of scientific treatises. — On the Cross: A Romance of the Passion Play at Oberammergau, Wilhelmine von Hillern

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