pleasurance
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pleasurance (uncountable)
- (rare) Pleasure.
- c1540(?a1400), The “Gest Hystoriale” of the Destruction of Troy: An Alliterative Romance, London: Published for the Early English Text Society, by N. Trübner & Co., published 1869–1874, pages 112–113:
- 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.
- 1846 December 10, “The Laborer’s Song”, in Mechanic’s Advocate, volume I, number 2, Albany, page 9:
- 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!
- 1925, Richard Le Gallienne, editor, The Le Gallienne Book of American Verse, New York, N.Y.: Boni & Liveright, page 247:
- 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.
- 1959 January 5, “Don’t Fight Winter Weather in a Worn Out Car!”, in Park City Daily News, 105 year, number 4, Bowling Green, Ky., page 9:
- Feel the joy of driving a clean, comfortable automobile, fully equipped to make the toughest weather a pleasurance to drive in.