Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Pleasant; agreeable.

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  • adjective Pleasant; agreeable.

Etymologies

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From Latin amoenus ("pleasant")

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Examples

  • Le cardio 'il s'y connais de toute facon donc si je lui amene mon examen cardiaque de ya un an et que j'lui explique ce que je ressens sous traitement il arriveras bien a imaginer un peu c'que ca fait.

    pinku-tk Diary Entry pinku-tk 2006

  • Bon deux mois ca nous amene au mois de Fevrier ...

    pinku-tk Diary Entry pinku-tk 2006

  • The Ratam (spartium), with delicate white and pink blossoms, was a reminiscence of Tenerife and its glorious crater; whilst a little higher up, the amene Cytisus, flowering with gold, carried our thoughts back to the far past.

    The Land of Midian 2003

  • The latter, whose site is by far the more picturesque and amene, lay upon a long tongue of land backing the slope of the sea-cliff, and attached to the low whitish hillocks and pitons rising down south.

    The Land of Midian 2003

  • In Modena, to the 1abours of Veratti already mentioned were added the "Memorie di Religione"; the "Opuscoli religiosi, letterari e morali"; the "Strenne filologiche"; in 1858 he founded there a collection of "Letture amene ed oneste".

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11: New Mexico-Philip 1840-1916 1913

  • M. Rosa avait ete amene a la concevoir par la lecture d'un passage de Ridolfi.

    Giorgione Cook, Herbert 1904

  • Its southern slopes are stern and forbidding through depth of snow and violence of glacial stream, and are devoid of game; its slopes toward the interior of the country are mild and amene, with light snowfall and game in abundance.

    The Ascent of Denali (Mount McKinley) A Narrative of the First Complete Ascent of the Highest Peak in North America Hudson Stuck 1891

  • La seule defiance donc a amene cette coutume de deshonorer les saints au lieu de les honorer, faisant ce que jamais ils n'ont fait ni demande; mais l'ont rejete constamment, et selon leur devoir, comme il appert par leurs ecrits.

    The Creeds of the Evangelical Protestant Churches. 1889

  • * La seule defiance donc a amene cette coutume de deshonorer les saints au lieu de les honorer, faisant ce que jamais ils n'ont fait ni demande; mais l'ont rejete constamment, et selon leur devoir, comme il appert par leurs ecrits.

    The Creeds of the Evangelical Protestant Churches. 1889

  • Et advint par ung jour qu'il fut amene a icelui autel de nostre Dame de

    Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres Henry Adams 1878

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