Pleasurance
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Pleasurance is a noun meaning (countable, nonstandard, rare) A pleasance (pleasure garden).
Meaning
(countable, nonstandard, rare) A pleasance (pleasure garden).
More Meanings
- (rare) Pleasure.
Example Sentences
Feel the joy of driving a clean, comfortable automobile, fully equipped to make the toughest weather a pleasurance to drive in.
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.
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.
“And who art thou, and who art thou / Who seeks to enter in, / And from my own Heart’s Happyland / A pleasurance to win?” / “I am the King of Great Delight, / Whose other name is Sin.”
Word Forms
- pleasurances
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include pleasance, pleasurableness, pleasurability, pleasure, confelicity, relish.
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