Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Obsolete forms of
pleasance .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete Pleasance.
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- noun Obsolete form of
pleasance .
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Examples
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And he liggethe never but o nyght with on of hem, and another nyght with another, but zif that on happene to ben more lusty to his plesance than another.
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I have don, zif ony be to his plesance: and noghte only of tho, but of alle that evere I schalle do unto my lyfes ende.
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And so thanne ben the presentes of grettere plesance to him, and more benygnely he wil resceyven hem, than though he were presented with an 100 or 200.
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Oure wyfes ne ben not arrayed for to make no man plesance, but only connable array, for to eschewe folye.
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Payneem, natheless he served wel God, aftre his lawe: and oure Lord toke his service to his plesance.
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And thanne the Cristene men wenten, where hem lykede best, at hire own plesance, with outen lettynge of ony creature; and hire enemyes enclosed and confounded in derknesse, with outen ony strok.
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Payneem, natheless he served wel God, aftre his lawe: and oure Lord toke his service to his plesance.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Oure wyfes ne ben not arrayed for to make no man plesance, but only connable array, for to eschewe folye.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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And thanne the Cristene men wenten, where hem lykede best, at hire own plesance, with outen lettynge of ony creature; and hire enemyes enclosed and confounded in derknesse, with outen ony strok.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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And alle tho that seyn for me a _Pater nostre_, with an _Ave Maria_, that God forzeve me my synnes, I make hem parteneres, and graunte hem part of alle the gode pilgrymages and of alle the gode dedes, that I have don, zif ony be to his plesance: and noghte only of tho, but of alle that evere I schalle do unto my lyfes ende.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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