pleasuring

as inoverjoy
as indelight

Synonyms for pleasuring

verb delight

Antonyms for pleasuring

Word Origin & History

late 14c., "condition of enjoyment," from Old French plesir, also plaisir "enjoyment, delight, desire, will" (12c.), from noun use of infinitive plaisir (v.) "to please," from Latin placere "to please, give pleasure, be approved" (see please (v.)). Ending altered in English 14c. by influence of words in -ure (measure, etc.). Meaning "sensual enjoyment as the chief object of life" is attested from 1520s.

Example Sentences for pleasuring

Darkness was coming on, and for a while he played about among the trees, pleasuring in his freedom.

He is off pleasuring, and the other is here planning and toiling.

I shall look after her clothes, education, pleasuring, as if she were my own child.

Come, mama; you don't grudge them a day's pleasuring, I'm sure.

Their pleasuring is on so large a scale that you cannot make it fit your times or necessities.

No; you think I have been pleasuring, but it was good honest business, I assure you.

The good stayers were on ahead, but weary maybe, it being late for pleasuring.

Graham queried, pleasuring in the sight of her graceful abandon.

She waited with a quiet smile, pleasuring in his unruly impetuousness.

Alice Merivale was away, pleasuring in England, the Hartmanns!