Word Meanings - PLEASANCE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Pleasure; merriment; gayety; delight; kindness. Shak. "Full great pleasance." Chaucer. "A realm of pleasance." Tennyson. 2. A secluded part of a garden. The pleasances of old Elizabethan houses. Ruskin.

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• GARDEN
  German origin; cf. OHG. garto, G. garten; akin to AS. geard. See Yard 1. A piece of ground appropriates to the cultivation of herbs, fruits, flowers, or vegetables. 2. A rich, well-cultivated spot or tract of country. I am arrived from fruitful
• GAYETY
  1. The state of being gay; merriment; mirth; acts or entertainments prompted by, or inspiring, merry delight; -- used often in the plural; as, the gayeties of the season. 2. Finery; show; as, the gayety of dress. Syn. -- Liveliness; mirth;
• DELIGHTING
  Giving delight; gladdening. -- De*light"ing*ly, adv. Jer. Taylor.
• GREAT-HEARTED
  1. High-spirited; fearless. Clarendon. 2. Generous; magnanimous; noble.
• DELIGHTLESS
  Void of delight. Thomson.
• GREAT-GRANDFATHER
  The father of one's grandfather or grandmother.
• KINDNESS
  1. The state or quality of being kind, in any of its various senses; manifestation of kind feeling or disposition beneficence. I do fear thy nature; It is too full o' the milk of human kindness To catch the nearest way. Shak. Unremembered acts
• GREAT-GRANDSON
  A son of one's grandson or granddaughter.
• GREAT-HEARTEDNESS
  The quality of being greathearted; high-mindedness; magnanimity.
• DELIGHTOUS
  Delightful. Rom. of R.
• GARDENING
  The art of occupation of laying out and cultivating gardens; horticulture.
• GARDENSHIP
  Horticulture.
• GREAT-GRANDMOTHER
  The mother of one's grandfather or grandmother.
• PLEASURER
  A pleasure seeker. Dickens.
• GARDENER
  One who makes and tends a garden; a horticulturist.
• GREATLY
  1. In a great degree; much. I will greatly multiply thy sorrow. Gen. iii. 16. 2. Nobly; illustriously; magnanimously. By a high fate thou greatly didst expire. Dryden.
• GREAT-GRANDDAUGHTER
  A daughter of one's grandson or granddaughter.
• PLEASURELESS
  Devoid of pleasure. G. Eliot.
• GREAT-GRANDCHILD
  The child of one's grandson or granddaughter.
• GREATNESS
  1. The state, condition, or quality of being great; as, greatness of size, greatness of mind, power, etc. 2. Pride; haughtiness. It is not of pride or greatness that he cometh not aboard your ships. Bacon.
• INGREAT
  To make great; to enlarge; to magnify. Fotherby.
• DISPLEASANCE
  Displeasure; discontent; annoyance. Chaucer.
• OVERDELIGHTED
  Delighted beyond measure.
• LOVING-KINDNESS
  Tender regard; mercy; favor. Ps. lxxxix. 33.