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well-pleased, ppl. a.
†1. Received with approval. Obs.—1
1382Wyclif Ps. cxl[i]. 5 In the wel plesid thingus of hem [Vulg. in beneplacitis eorum].
2. Highly gratified or satisfied.
c1420? Lydg. Assembly of Gods 180, I am wellplesyd, quod thys Eolus. 1539Bible (Great) Matt. iii. 17 This is my beloued sonne, in whom I am well pleased. 1593Shakes. 2 Hen. VI, iv. x. 25 Sufficeth, that I haue maintaines my state, And sends the poore well pleased from my gate. 1619Drayton Bar. Wars iii. lxxxiv. 48 Where Welcome look'd with a well-pleased face. 1707E. Smith Phædra & Hipp. iii. 26 The well pleas'd Sun With all his Beams survey'd their guiltless Flame. 1847Tennyson Princess Concl. 118 And home well-pleased we went. 1852Thackeray Esmond iii. ix, ‘I drink to my hostess and her family,’ says the Prince, with no very well-pleased air.
Hence well-ˈpleasedly adv., well-ˈpleasedness.
1633D. R[ogers] Treat. Sacram. ii. 36 So that former anger is turned into welpleasednesse. 1644Hammond Tracts, Consc. §58 Serving God εὐαρέστως (i.e. either well pleasedly, cheerfully, willingly, or well pleasingly, so as God may and will accept). 1658Whole Duty Man vii. §i. 158 This contentedness is a well-pleasedness with that condition..that God hath placed us. 1701Beverley Praise of Glory of Grace 21 The pure and perfect Eudokia, or the Well-Pleasedness of his Will in it self. |