voluptyn.
Pleasure, delight. Frequently (esp. in earlier use) in plural.
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the mind > emotion > pleasure > [noun]
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barrel of fun (laughs, etc.)1915
the mind > emotion > pleasure > quality of being pleasant or pleasurable > [noun] > pleasures
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(b)1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) Ezek. xxxi. 9 Alle the trees of voluptee [a1425 L.V. lust], that veren in paradise of God, sueden hym.1508 J. Fisher Treat. Penyt. Psalmes sig. ee.viv Whan Adam was set in paradyse a place of grete pleasure volupty & reste.a1530 W. Bonde Pylgrimage of Perfeccyon (1531) iii. f. CCxxxii To haue the fruicyon that is full volupte & pleasure of ye same.1542 N. Udall tr. Erasmus Apophthegmes f. 137 For that the same caused in deede..delicious pleasure & voluptee.a1751 Visct. Bolingbroke Wks. (1754) I. 124 The doctrine of volupty taught by Epicurus.a1751 Visct. Bolingbroke Wks. (1754) V. 402 I will crayon out a picture..in imitation of those Cleanthes used to draw when he disputed against the partizans of volupty.1929 S. Leslie Anglo-Catholic xv. 216 Edward could see every brick in position with that strange microscopic vision which makes seeing a volupty of the eye.personif.c1590 J. Stewart Poems (1913) 206 Dame voluptie vith proud pernicious spreit.c1380 J. Wyclif Sel. Wks. II. 380 So volupteis and rychesse of þe worlde maken þei to be loved.
c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) (1850) Titus iii. 3 We weren sum tyme vnwyse, vnbileueful, erringe, and seruynge to desyris, and dyuerse voluptees.
c1450 tr. Thomas à Kempis De Imitatione Christi ii. x. 52 Spiritual consolacions passiþ all þe delices of þe worlde, & all flesshly voluptes.
1483 W. Caxton tr. Caton 7 b Seneque sayth that by voluptees and excesse comen foure euylles.
?1529 R. Hyrde tr. J. L. Vives Instr. Christen Woman i. iv. sig. D.ijv Hit is so, bicause they be euer amonge volupteis and pleasures, and bankettyng.
1541 T. Paynell tr. Felicius Conspiracie of Catiline xlii. f. 68v Syth ye at home giue your selfes to volupties and pleasures.
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