Meanings
verb
- gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of pleasure
nounpleasuring (plural pleasurings)
plural pleasurings
- An act of giving (sometimes sexual) pleasure.
He is the declared enemy of all living by reflex action, of all that is done betwixt sleep and waking, of all the pleasureless pleasurings and imaginary duties in which we coin away our hearts and fritter invaluable years.
1882, Robert Louis Stevenson, Familiar Studies of Men and Books
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