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Definition of Pleasance
1. Noun. A pleasant and secluded part of a garden; usually attached to a mansion.
2. Noun. A fundamental feeling that is hard to define but that people desire to experience. "He was tingling with pleasure"
Generic synonyms: Feeling
Specialized synonyms: Delectation, Delight, Enjoyment, Pleasantness, Comfort, Sexual Pleasure
Derivative terms: Pleasant, Please
Antonyms: Pain
Definition of Pleasance
1. n. Pleasure; merriment; gayety; delight; kindness.
Definition of Pleasance
1. Proper noun. ( female given name) ¹
2. Noun. (archaic) A pleasure ground laid out with shady walks, trees and shrubs, statuary, and ornamental water; a secluded part of a garden. ¹
3. Noun. (obsolete) pleasure ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Pleasance
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pleasance
Literary usage of Pleasance
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1876)
"Oh, pleasance, I'm frightened." The last alarms had seized on the timid creature,
and л scared terror arose in her eyes, while the sweat-drops gathered on ..."
2. Good Words by Norman Macleod (1876)
"cried Miss Mott, before pleasance had time to answer ; " and she is something
... I am pleasance, not Patience," said 1 pleasance, fancying that the old man ..."
3. The Shakespeare Garden by Esther Singleton (1922)
"EVOLUTION OF THE SHAKESPEARE GARDEN The Medieval pleasance SHAKESPEARE was familiar
with two kinds of gardens: the stately and magnificent garden that ..."
4. Chambers's Cyclopædia of English Literature: A History, Critical and by Robert Chambers (1876)
"Puffed up with pride and vain pleasance ; But all this glee had no ... For they
of joy and pleasance to you sing, That all the woods them answer, ..."
5. The Critical Review, Or, Annals of Literature by Tobias George Smollett (1809)
"Me too it cheers, and bids ray pulses beat, With healthful temper and enlivening
beat. Quickening each heart to pleasance like the time, ..."
6. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1876)
"Oh, pleasance, I'm frightened." The last alarms had seized on the timid creature,
and л scared terror arose in her eyes, while the sweat-drops gathered on ..."
7. Good Words by Norman Macleod (1876)
"cried Miss Mott, before pleasance had time to answer ; " and she is something
... I am pleasance, not Patience," said 1 pleasance, fancying that the old man ..."
8. The Shakespeare Garden by Esther Singleton (1922)
"EVOLUTION OF THE SHAKESPEARE GARDEN The Medieval pleasance SHAKESPEARE was familiar
with two kinds of gardens: the stately and magnificent garden that ..."
9. Chambers's Cyclopædia of English Literature: A History, Critical and by Robert Chambers (1876)
"Puffed up with pride and vain pleasance ; But all this glee had no ... For they
of joy and pleasance to you sing, That all the woods them answer, ..."
10. The Critical Review, Or, Annals of Literature by Tobias George Smollett (1809)
"Me too it cheers, and bids ray pulses beat, With healthful temper and enlivening
beat. Quickening each heart to pleasance like the time, ..."
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