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pleasantnesse (usually uncountable, plural pleasantnesses)

  1. Obsolete spelling of pleasantness.
    • 1590, John Stow, A Svmmarie of the Chronicles of England, from the Firſt arriuing of Brute in this Iſland, vnto this preſent yeere of Chriſt, 1590[1]:
      [] or for the pleaſantneſſe the ſtudie and reading, to be preferred before the chronicles and hiſtories.