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- noun Plural form of
pleasantness .
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Examples
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Airy pleasantnesses bubble up in airy, pleasant words.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 59, September, 1862 Various
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Behavior and little pleasantnesses are almost as important.
Criminal Psychology: a manual for judges, practitioners, and students 1911
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He's kind, wonderfully kind, but he has no little pleasantnesses.
The Happiest Time of Their Lives Alice Duer Miller 1908
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I have the right to say it, since for years he was my wife's lover, since he killed her, since he broke up all the pleasantnesses that there were in my life.
The Good Soldier Ford Madox Ford 1906
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They were not only embracements, but also those trifles, those superfluous nothings, "those light pleasantnesses which make us fond of life."
Saint Augustin Louis Bertrand 1903
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Airy pleasantnesses bubble up in airy, pleasant words.
The Wit and Humor of America, Volume IV. (of X.) Various 1887
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When a sufficiency of the world's goods has been obtained to satisfy animal wants for food and clothing and shelter, happiness depends, not upon the pleasures but the pleasantnesses of life; not upon the possession of a house full of superfluities but in the attainment of restraining grace.
My Tropic Isle 1887
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Yes, he owned it to himself; it was delicious to feel her standing there beside him, in silent communion with him, contemplating the same things, enjoying the same pleasantnesses.
My Friend Prospero Henry Harland 1883
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These abstract relations and inherent pleasantnesses, whether in space, number, or time, and whether of colors or sounds, form what we may properly term the musical or harmonic element in every art; and the study of them is an entirely separate science.
Aratra Pentelici, Seven Lectures on the Elements of Sculpture Given before the University of Oxford in Michaelmas Term, 1870 John Ruskin 1859
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These abstract relations and inherent pleasantnesses, whether in space, number, or time, and whether of colours or sounds, form what we may properly term the musical or harmonic element in every art; and the study of them is an entirely separate science.
The Crown of Wild Olive also Munera Pulveris; Pre-Raphaelitism; Aratra Pentelici; The Ethics of the Dust; Fiction, Fair and Foul; The Elements of Drawing John Ruskin 1859
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