Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Acceptable; pleasing.
  • noun That which is well pleasing; also, the act of pleasing or satisfying.

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Examples

  • Father, for this way was well-pleasing in Your sight.

    Recovering From Religious Abuse Jack Watts 2011

  • Father, for this way was well-pleasing in Your sight.

    Recovering From Religious Abuse Jack Watts 2011

  • Father, for this way was well-pleasing in Your sight.

    Recovering From Religious Abuse Jack Watts 2011

  • Father, for this way was well-pleasing in Your sight.

    Recovering From Religious Abuse Jack Watts 2011

  • The fruits of unity (next unto the well-pleasing of God, which is all in all) are two; the one towards those that are without the church, the other towards those that are within.

    Be reasonable; do things my way. God does 2006

  • And let none marvel that of these the greater part, albeit well-pleasing to the gods, nevertheless were subject to death — which is the way of nature,4 but their fame has grown — nor yet that their prime of manhood so far differed.

    On Hunting 2007

  • Each customer who purchased service in lvl4u.com was quite well-pleasing, furthermore, we become the best friends because we treat our clients as our families.

    I Love the Smell of Burning Crusade in the Morning 2007

  • And what I value most, freedom to spend whole days in pure scholastic intercourse182 with Socrates, to whom I am devoted. 183 And he, on his side, is not the person to admire those whose tale of gold and silver happens to be the largest, but those who are well-pleasing to him he chooses for companions, and will consort with to the end.

    Symposium 2007

  • If, then, you wish to be well-pleasing in his eyes, you had best inquire by what knowledge Themistocles345 was able to set Hellas free.

    Symposium 2007

  • Implant in my members the fear of thee, be thou my helper and guide, directing my life in the paths of peace, and make me worthy to stand at thy right hand with thy Saints; through the prayers and intercessions of thine immaculate Mother, of thy Bodiless Servitors, of the immaculate Powers, and of all the Saints who from all ages have been well-pleasing unto thee.

    A Prayer of St. John Chrysostom Argent 2006

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