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pleasurance

noun

Etymology

From pleasure + -ance.

  1. derived from *pleh₂-k-✻
  2. derived from placeō — “to please, to seem good”
  3. derived from plesir
  4. inherited from plaisir
  5. suffixed as pleasurance — “pleasure + ance”

Definitions

  1. Pleasure.

    • Soon as our thoughts the proper path have taken, / Seeking that pleasurance which oft controls / Life’s stern realities—Heaven will tire each mind / With love for sacred Right—with Justice to mankind!
    • Yet once, I mind me, Smith was forced to stay / Close in his room. Not calm as I was he; / But his noise brought no pleasurance, verily.

  2. A pleasance (pleasure garden).

    • Then there is a series of formal walled gardens. Beyond them are wide lawns, pleasurances, great trees, walks, orchards, garden houses, conservatories and an orangery.
    • Modeled like English estates, at Gunston Hall there was a flower garden, a pleasurance, a deer park, a bowling green, and a vegetable garden, shielded by a lovely row of white and lavender lilac.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA