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Meanings of pleasance in English

Portuguese
alegria
Catalan
delit
Spanish
placer
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A fundamental feeling that is hard to define but that people desire to experience.

alegria
Synonyms
Examples for "pleasure"
Examples for "pleasure"
1
Background: People commonly use psychoactive substances to increase physical and psychological pleasure.
Pubmed
2
To test the food of a great chef is work of pleasure.
The Guardian
3
Otherwise, he is pleasure without principle, energy without direction, locomotion without purpose.
The Disposable Male
4
It was a great pleasure working and relaxing there this past week.
The Irish Times
5
You cannot know my pleasure to feel again my strength set free.
Lord of Light
Usage of pleasance in English
1
The emperor sat among his knights in a green pleasance.
The Junior Classics, Volume 4: Heroes and heroines of chivalry
2
The slowest-growing shrubs in its pleasance were tough, seamed, branched and bowed with time.
Girlhood and Womanhood / The Story of some Fortunes and Misfortu...
3
The cabin was their palace, the soaked prospect a pleasance decked for their delight.
The Emigrant Trail
4
Such is Vyell's new pleasance of Eagles, Boston's latest wonder.
Lady Good-for-Nothing: A Man's Portrait of a Woman
5
The furnace was transformed into a royal pleasance, and the angels sat therein with Abraham.
The Legends of the Jews — Volume 1
6
Her pleasance in that way became her gilded cage.
Seeing Europe with Famous Authors, Volume 6 / Germany, Austria-H...
7
That you have as yet no conception of a sorrow which is past distraction by pleasance.
A Forgotten Hero / Not for Him
8
Pour out your pleasance on my father's head!
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 332, June, 1843
9
But Ranelagh house and gardens had a short history as the residence and pleasance of a nobleman.
Inns and Taverns of Old London
10
And then she looked out over the misty clover-grown pleasance to the country beyond bathed in brilliant moonlight.
Halcyone
11
You can see the old terraces of the Hall, the mounds of ruins, the fish-ponds, the grass-grown pleasance.
At Large
12
Heaven is a walled pleasance, like the Garden of Delight in the "Roman de la Rose,"
A History of English Romanticism in the Nineteenth Century
13
And there was rapturous acclaim in Paradise, and it was to God's sweet pleasance that it was so.
Second Book of Tales
14
That can with melting pleasance mollify
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction. Volume 13,...
15
Joy reached the pleasance first.
The Wishing-Ring Man
16
They seem very gallant ships, and I trust that we shall have much pleasance from our meeting with them.
The White Company
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Translations for pleasance
Portuguese
alegriaprazer
Spanish
placer
Pleasance through the time