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pleasingness|ˈpliːzɪŋnɪs|
[f. as prec. + -ness.]
a. Pleasing quality; agreeableness, pleasantness.
†b. Pleasedness, pleasure (obs.).
a.a1586Sidney Arcadia (1622) 55 Time..seeming..short..in the pleasingnesse of such presence. 1662Stillingfl. Orig. Sacr. i. iv. §2 (ed. 3) 59 The novelty and pleasingness of musick and poetry. 176.Wesley Husb. & Wives iii. Wks. 1811 IX. 62 The Effects of Nuptial Love are three, Pleasingness, Faithfulness, Helpfulness. 1832L. Hunt Sir. R. Esher (1850) 234 Warts and wrinkles..inimical to pleasingness of aspect.
b.1649Earl of Monmouth tr. Senault's Use Passions (1671) 53 One might..see pleasingness take the same place in his countenance, which Choler had possest. |