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▪ I. pleasing, vbl. n.|ˈpliːzɪŋ|
[-ing1.]
1. The action of the vb. please; the giving of pleasure or satisfaction; the fact of being pleased or satisfied.
† to have pleasing to: to take pleasure in; to do (one) pleasing: to give pleasure to (obs.).
1362Langl. P. Pl. A. iii. 237 Preostes and Persones þat plesyng desyreþ, And taketh Meede and moneye for Massen þat þei syngen. a1450Knt. de la Tour (1868) 48 Whi loue ye or haue more plesinge to ani man than to youre husbonde? Ibid. 67 To make her selff the fayrer to the plesinge of the worlde. 1596Raleigh in Four C. Eng. Lett. (1880) 36 Preferringe your plesinge before myne own desire. 1611Bible Col. i. 10 That yee might walke worthy of the Lord vnto all pleasing, being fruitfull in euery good worke. 1895C. Holland Jap Wife (ed. 11) 78 She is a graduate in the art of pleasing.
†b. Appeasing, pacification, blandishment.
c1380Antecrist in Todd 3 Treat. Wyclif 123 Þei disceyven þe hertis of innocentis be swet wordis & plesyngis & oþer feyned signes. 1382Wyclif 1 Macc. i. 47 Sacrifices and plesyngis for to be don in the temple of God. c1400Harrow. Hell 977 (Add. MS.) A lettre þai wrote all of plesynge.
†2. One's liking, pleasure, desire, will. Obs.
c1430Hymns Virg. 2 Tota pulcra þou art to my plesynge, My moder, princes of paradijs. c1485Digby Myst. (1882) iii. 1480 That wold I lerne; Ittis my plesyng. 1527Prose Life St. Brandan (Percy Soc.) 40 Therfore our Lorde hath set us here..in full grete joye and myrth, after his pleasynge, here to serve hym.
†3. A source of pleasure; an object of delight. Obs. rare.
c1386Chaucer Man of Law's T. 613 They moste take in pacience at nyght Swiche manere necessaries as been plesynges To folk þat han ywedded hem with rynges.
†4. = pleasingness. Obs.
1581Savile Tacitus' Agric. (1622) 184 The sweetnesse and pleasing of idlenesse, and of doing nothing, creepeth into our sences. 1594Shakes. Rich. III, i. i. 13 He capers nimbly in a Ladies Chamber, To the lasciuious pleasing of a Lute.
▪ II. ˈpleasing, ppl. a.
[f. please v. + -ing2.]
1. That pleases; that gives pleasure or satisfaction; agreeable, grateful.
c1380Wyclif Serm. Sel. Wks. II. 19 However þis ende comeþ beste, is moost plesing to God. c1440Jacob's Well 191 Plesyd wyth fayre woordys & plesyng speche. 1563Mirr. Mag., Hastings lvi, The pleasyngst meanes boade not the luckiest endes. 1592Warner Alb. Eng. viii. xli. (1612) 200 The teares did wash her pleasing face. 1621Lady M. Wroth Urania 327 What is pleasinger then varietie, or sweeter then flatterie? 1702Pope Dryope 19 Her smiling babe (a pleasing charge) she prest Within her arms. 1741Richardson Pamela (1824) I. 9 He has reconciled the pleasing to the proper. 1877Mrs. Forrester Mignon I. 15 No longer a young man, yet not too old to be pleasing to women.
†2. Willing, approving. Obs. rare.
1652Howell Giraffi's Rev. Naples ii. 81 Whereunto Don John gave no pleasing ear. |