Leasure
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Leasure is a noun meaning Misspelling of leisure.
Meaning
Misspelling of leisure.
More Meanings
- Obsolete spelling of leisure.
Example Sentences
To Scriptures read they muſt their leaſure frame, / Then loath they will both luſt and wanton love; […]
When Cato Utican, in vacation times, and at his beſt leaſure, went to recreate himſelf in the country, he uſed to cary with him the beſt Philoſophers, and choiſeſt bookes.
Her garments all were wrought of beaten gold, / And all her ſteed with tinſell trappings ſhone, / Which fledd ſo faſt, that nothing mote him hold, / And ſcarſe them leaſure gaue, her paſſing to behold.
And ſurely if the purpoſe be in good earneſt not to vvrite at leaſure that vvhich mẽ [men] may read at leaſure, but really to inſtruct and ſuborne Action and actiue life, theſe Georgickes of the mind concerning the huſbãdry & tillage thereof, are no leſſe vvorthy thẽ the heroical deſcriptiõs of vertue, duty, & felicity vvherfore the maine & primitiue diuiſion of Morall knovvledge ſeemeth to be into the Exemplar or Platforme of Good, and the Regiment or Culture of the mind; […]
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Related dictionary entries include leisure, leavy, leathers, lowery.
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