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Definition of Pleasantnesses
1. pleasantness [n] - See also: pleasantness
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pleasantnesses
Literary usage of Pleasantnesses
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The True Christian Religion: Containing the Universal Theology of the New Church by Emanuel Swedenborg (1873)
"... as are also the pleasantnesses, which appear as of wisdom; for there are the
delights of the love of good, and the delights of the love of evil, ..."
2. The True Christian Religion: Containing the Universal Theology of the New by Emanuel Swedenborg (1912)
"[-] But the delights of love are of two kinds; so, too, are the pleasantnesses
that seem to pertain to wisdom, namely, delights of the love of good and ..."
3. Arcana Cœlestia: The Heavenly Arcana Contained in the Holy Scriptures Or by Emanuel Swedenborg (1874)
"... pleasantnesses of taste, and signify, in the Internal sense, ... conjoined and
appropriated unless by delights and pleasantnesses accommodated to him, ..."
4. Concerning Heaven and Its Wonders, and Concerning Hell: From Things Heard by Emanuel Swedenborg (1837)
"How all things are insinuated into them by delights and pleasantnesses, which
are suited to their temper, has been also shown to me; for it was given me to ..."
5. Delights of Wisdom Concerning Conjugial Love: After which Follow Pleasures by Emanuel Swedenborg (1833)
"... the sense of smell, and its pleasantnesses are fragrances; the love of nourishing
one's self from the love of imbuing one's self with goods and truths, ..."
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