| 单词 | to take one's pleasure |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto take one's pleasure b. The indulgence of physical, esp. sexual, desires or appetites; sensual or sexual gratification. to take one's pleasure: to have sexual intercourse. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sexual relations > sexual activity > [noun] > sexual gratification fleshlihoodc1440 pleasure?a1450 assa1916 the world > physical sensation > physical sensibility > sensuous pleasure > sensuality > [noun] > sensual indulgence or gratification carnalityc1440 fleshlihoodc1440 pleasure?a1450 carnalness1549 flesh-fonding1556 corporeity1653 flesh-pleasing1677 carnalism1864 ?a1450 in H. Sandison Chanson d'Aventure in Middle Eng. (1913) 124 (MED) O brykell worlde..Thow provokest man to folowe sensualyte..Thow byddest hym folowe plesure. ?a1475 (?a1425) tr. R. Higden Polychron. (Harl. 2261) (1874) V. 373 (MED) A duke..entrenge in to that bedde hade his pleasure [a1387 J. Trevisa tr. lay by here], supposynge that hit hade bene the gentilwoman. a1500 tr. A. Chartier Traité de l'Esperance (Rawl.) (1974) 95 (MED) Thi werkis [read werkirs]..receyvid..licence to walowe in ther flesshely pleasures and vnrefrayned lechery. 1562 in F. J. Furnivall Child-marriages, Divorces, & Ratifications Diocese Chester (1897) 75 He wold have had his pleasure of her. 1611 Bible (King James) Gen. xviii. 12 Therefore Sarah laughed within her selfe, saying, After I am waxed old, shall I haue pleasure, my lord being old also? View more context for this quotation 1660 S. Pepys Diary 8 Aug. (1970) I. 217 We lay there all night very pleasantly..I taking my pleasure with my wife in the morning. 1722 D. Defoe Moll Flanders 29 We took our fill of our wicked Pleasure for near half a Year. 1749 J. Cleland Mem. Woman of Pleasure I. 32 A secret byass..inclined her to make the most of pleasure, where-ever she could find it, without distinction of sexes. 1792 M. Wollstonecraft Vindic. Rights Woman iv. 158 To such lengths, indeed, does an intemperate love of pleasure carry some prudent men, or worn out libertines, who marry to have a safe bed-fellow, that they seduce their own wives. 1877 M. Oliphant Makers of Florence (ed. 2) xii The vileness which calls itself pleasure was paralyzed. 1940 L. E. Hinsie & J. Shatzky Psychiatric Dict. 350/2 Mixoscopia, a form of sexual perversion, deriving pleasure from watching the act of coition between the desired one and another person. 1976 Times Lit. Suppl. 20 Feb. 191/4 Rowlandson adds to the list in prints of couples taking their pleasure in carriages, even on horseback. 1992 R. MacNeil Burden of Desire ii. 93 The touching, the kissing, the stroking, the holding..quite inexpressible pleasure. So shudderingly wonderful. < as lemmas |
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