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NOUN
- a pleasant and secluded part of a garden; usually attached to a mansion
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a fundamental feeling that is hard to define but that people desire to experience
he was tingling with pleasure
How To Use pleasance In A Sentence
- And when that messengers of strange countries come before him, the meinie of the soldan, when the strangers speak to him, they be about the soldan with swords drawn and gisarmes and axes, their arms lifted up in high with those weapons for to smite upon them, if they say any word that is displeasance to the soldan. The Travels of Sir John Mandeville
- And when that messengers of strange countries come before him, the meinie of the soldan, when the strangers speak to him, they be about the soldan with swords drawn and gisarmes and axes, their arms lifted up in high with those weapons for to smite upon them, if they say any word that is displeasance to the soldan. The Travels of Sir John Mandeville
- _Mother_, may they pardon (as I reckon they shall) all faults and failings thereof, and in particular, should they find such, any displeasance done to themselves, more especially of that their loving and duteous daughter, that writes her name _Editha Louvaine_. Joyce Morrell's Harvest The Annals of Selwick Hall
- It will be strange not to find him standing proprietorially amid the young revellers in the Pleasance courtyard, calling you over for a drink and bending your ear on some matter of Fringe politics.
- When I was in elementary school, each time when the Children's Day came, There would be a pleasance activity which was held by school. Its purpose was let us enjoy the Children's Day.
- As the brands of a fire, if once feverered, will of themselves goe out, altho you use no other meanes to extinguish them, so distance of place, together with length of time (if there be no intercourse) will cool the affectiones of intimate friends, though tjere should be no displeasance between them. Anne Bradstreet and Her Time
- For the finished article, look instead to an outfit that goes by the illiterately ovine name of Sheeps Pleasance Hut, rating: * * * * . Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
- He has gone to his pleasance, a place six miles away, where he will celebrate the festivities.
- Whereupon, our sovereign Lord, as well our Lords as we have communed by your high commandment in these matters: and known well among us all without [doubt ye are] so Christian a Prince that ye would in so high a matter begin nothing but that were to God's pleasance, and to eschew by all ways the shedding of Christian blood; and that, if algate [at all events] ye should do it, that denying of right and reason were the cause [rather] than wilfulheadedness. Henry of Monmouth, Volume 2 Memoirs of Henry the Fifth
- St. Edmund's Pleasance is a medium-sized piece of parkland that stands at the top of East Hill, overlooking the whole of Dartford and the surrounding areas.