Meaning of pleasurance | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Pleasure.
   countable, rare, uncountable
2. A pleasance (pleasure garden).
   countable, nonstandard, rare

Examples

“When Cassandra hade knowyng how þe case stode, / Þat the mariage was made þo mighty betwene, / She brast out in a birre, bale to be-holde. / With a mighty noise, noye for to here, / Playnond with pytie, no pleasurance at all, / With sykyng & sorow said on this wise:— / “A! fonnet folke, why fare ye thus now, / With solas full sore, and sanges of myrthe, / At the weddyng of the weghes, þat shall to wo turne.”

“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.”

“This is the wicked rout of pleasurance / That with fair seeming lureth men to fall. / Pleasure herself and Folly lead the dance, / Offering cups with many a luring call, / Whose wine sweet-tasting soon is turned to gall. / And they that follow them must surely die; / There is indeed no other remedy.”

““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.””

“Feel the joy of driving a clean, comfortable automobile, fully equipped to make the toughest weather a pleasurance to drive in.”

“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.”

“In Leighton Field, St. James’s, is a Holy Well mentioned in the reign of Edward IV, and the Abbey Fish Ponds there were still in existence, as a pleasurance, in the early nineteenth century, but now drained and reclaimed so that their banks are scarcely discernible.”

“Ivor Brown (as one would expect) stresses the importance of the arts in any civilised plan for living, projecting the beneficent past activities of C.E.M.A. [Council for the Encouragement of Music and the Arts] into the uncertain future, hopefully on the whole. His plea for “Regional Pleasurances” is plain common sense.”

“While it clung to the very pinnacle of the mountain’s crest, the remainder of the peak had, by afreets subject to the Doctor’s art, been leveled into artificial terraces, which now bloomed with lush gardens and exotic pleasurances.”

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