pleasurance
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
3
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "When Cassandra hade knowyng how þe case stode, / Þat the mariage was made þo mighty betwene, / She brast out in a birre, bale to be-holde. / With a mighty noise, noye for to here, / Playnond with pytie, no pleasurance at all, / With sykyng & sorow said on this wise:— / “A! fonnet folke, why fare ye thus now, / With solas full sore, and sanges of myrthe, / At the weddyng of the weghes, þat shall to wo turne."
- "Soon as our thoughts the proper path have taken, / Seeking that pleasurance which oft controls / Life’s stern realities—Heaven will tire each mind / With love for sacred Right—with Justice to mankind!"
- "Yet once, I mind me, Smith was forced to stay / Close in his room. Not calm as I was he; / But his noise brought no pleasurance, verily."
- "This is the wicked rout of pleasurance / That with fair seeming lureth men to fall. / Pleasure herself and Folly lead the dance, / Offering cups with many a luring call, / Whose wine sweet-tasting soon is turned to gall. / And they that follow them must surely die; / There is indeed no other remedy."
- "“And who art thou, and who art thou / Who seeks to enter in, / And from my own Heart’s Happyland / A pleasurance to win?” / “I am the King of Great Delight, / Whose other name is Sin.”"
- "Feel the joy of driving a clean, comfortable automobile, fully equipped to make the toughest weather a pleasurance to drive in."
Etymology
From pleasure + -ance.