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pleasurous

pleasurous adjective: characterized by pleasure.

Adjective

pleasurous (comparative more pleasurous, superlative most pleasurous)

  1. (rare) Characterized by pleasure.
    • Th’ Italian founded is on Boccace pleaſurous;1595, Guillaume de Saluste Seigneur du Bartas, translated by William L’Isle, Babilon, a Part of the Seconde VVeeke of Guillaume de Saluste Seigneur du Bartas, with the Commentarie, and Marginall...
    • Herod ſought thee in the multitude, theſe in the Garden, but thy parents in the Temple, it lyes not then (Lord) I ſee ſo much in ſeeking thee, as in ſeeking thee aright: O let mee ſeeke thee then in thy Temple, thy houſe of Prayer, that place where thine honour dwelleth, not in the Garden of...1631, Charles Herle, Contemplations and Devotions on the Severall Passages of Our Blessed Saviors Death and Passion, London: […] Aug. Mat[hewes] for Humphrey Robinson, […], pages 72–73 and 378–379

Examples of pleasurous in a sentence

  • When we turn ſenſuall in our pleaſurous enjoyments, we remember not eternity.1655 [i.e., 1654], John Wells, A Prospect of Eternity: or Mans Everlasting Condition Opened and Applyed, London: […] E. C. for Joseph...
  • It is no pleaſurous thing with Him to Afflict his People, Lam. 3. 33.1697, J[ohn] G[ibbs], A Funeral Sermon Preached at Newport-Pagnell, April 11. 1697. On the Occasion of the Sudden Death of William Maxwell...
  • Begin we, then, our sweet and pleasurous sway;1839, P[hilip] J[ames] Bailey, Festus, page 40:
  • […]old people spend hours recounting the pleasurous sensations produced by an intangible something called love.1948 February 26, “Definitions On Love Differ”, in The Daily Tar Heel, volume LVI, number 110, Chapel Hill, N.C., page two:

Forms of pleasurous

comparativemore pleasurous
superlativemost pleasurous

Origin of pleasurous

From pleasure + -ous.

Questions about pleasurous

What does pleasurous mean?
Pleasurous means characterized by pleasure.
How do you use pleasurous in a sentence?
When we turn ſenſuall in our pleaſurous enjoyments, we remember not eternity.
What part of speech is pleasurous?
Pleasurous is an adjective.

Words near pleasurous in the dictionary

  1. pleasurization
  2. pleasurize
  3. pleasurized
  4. pleasurizes
  5. pleasurizing
  6. pleasurous
  7. pleasy
  8. pleat
  9. pleatable
  10. pleated
  11. pleated snowdrop

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