pleasurablest
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[edit]Adjective
[edit]pleasurablest
- (rare) superlative form of pleasurable: most pleasurable
- 1625, [Samuel] Purchas, “By the permission of Almightie God. Sundrie the personall Voyages performed by Iohn Sanderson of London, Merchant, begun in October 1584. Ended in October 1602. With an historicall Description of Constantinople.”, in Purchas His Pilgrimes. […], 2nd part, London: […] William Stansby for Henrie Fetherstone, […], →OCLC, 9th book, § V (The Pilgrimage of Iohn Sanderson from Constantinople, to the Holy Land, and so to Tripoly in Syria, begunne the fourteenth day of May, 1601. ended the fourteenth of August.), page 1635, lines 35–38:
- From thence wee might ſee moſt excellent pleaſantly, appearing aboue the tops of other high Mountaynes, the Citie Bethel vpon his Mountayne, the higheſt Mountayne neare vnto it, whereas I ſay they affirme, that the Meſſias will come; thoſe for the pleaſurableſt Mountaynes which in my life time I haue ſeene, and Libanus for the hugeſt; […]
- 1649, H[enry] Hammond, The Christians Obligations to Peace & Charity. Delivered in an Advent Sermon at Carisbrooke-Castle, Ann. 1647. And Now Published with IX. Sermons More., London: […] R. Royston, […], page 248:
- Were but the thouſandth part of that hell which expects the indulgent ſinner in another world, mixt in the very cup of his pleaſurabeſt ſinne here, the leaſt preſent whip in ſtead of all thoſe future Scorpions, it would be almoſt impoſſible for the moſt magnanimous ſinner to venture ſo deep for that empty honour, the bare opinion, or phanſie, or credit of having aſſaulted and rebelled againſt heaven, and gain’d nothing by it, to pay ſo deare for that which is not bread, hath nothing of ſubſtance or ſatisfaction in it; […]
- 1683, A. Marsh, The Confession of the New Married Couple, Being the Second Part of the Ten Pleasures of Marriage. Relating the Further Delights and Contentments That Ly Mask’d under the Bands of Wedlock., London: [s.n.], pages 9 and 12:
- You have ſeen that the ſumptuoſeſt Feaſt full of delicate diſhes, and the pleaſurableſt Country Scituations, with al their rich fruits, finally cloggeth, through the continual injoyment of them. […] But the handſom Shop-keeping is the ſureſt and pleaſurableſt; for every moment you get new cuſtomers as well from abroad as at home, who buy continually with ready mony; or otherwiſe pay the old ſcore, and truſt the new.
- 1909, Carolyn Wells, Patty’s Pleasure Trip:
- “Have you had a good time all through Italy?” asked Peter Homer, of Patty. “Oh, yes, indeed it has been the pleasurablest pleasure trip I could imagine. Everything has gone right,—except,” she paused suddenly, as she remembered the episode of the night before.
- 1988, Malcolm Ross, A Notorious Woman, Piatkus, →ISBN, page 95:
- An’ that’s the pleasurablest commission this particular feather of the American Eagle ever got given.