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  • noun The quality or state of being pleased.

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Examples

  • Certainly her customary clear expression of candour was not there, and its place was taken by a kind of suppressed and frightened pleasedness, which would have led a more worldly-minded audience to the instant conviction of recent and probably impassioned lovemaking.

    The Enchanted April 1922

  • Certainly her customary clear expression of candor was not there, and its place was taken by a kind of suppressed and frightened pleasedness, which would have led a more worldly-minded audience to the instant conviction of recent and probably impassioned lovemaking.

    The Enchanted April Elizabeth von Arnim 1903

  • God's well-pleasedness in Jesus Christ; for there is no coming to the

    Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume V (Matthew to John) 1721

  • The people having, besides their submission to the ceremony of the sprinkling of blood, declared their well-pleasedness in their God and his law, again and again, God here gives to their representatives some special tokens of his favour to them (for God meets him that rejoices and works righteousness), and admits them nearer to him than they could have expected.

    Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume I (Genesis to Deuteronomy) 1721

  • How dost thou like thyself, as considered possessed with a body of sin, and as feeling and finding that sin worketh in thy members? doth this yield thee inward pleasedness of mind, and a kind of secret sweetness, or bow? for to be sure, where a sanctified mind is, there is nothing more; odious in itself, nor that makes

    Works of John Bunyan — Volume 02 John Bunyan 1658

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