2. Verb. (third-person singular of pleasure) ¹
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Definition of Pleasures
1. pleasure [v] - See also: pleasure
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Literary usage of Pleasures
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Nicomachean Ethics of Aristotle by Aristotle (1897)
"What are these pleasures ! They are not mental pleasures such as ambition or the
love of learning, neither are they innocent pleasures such as the pleasures ..."
2. The Republic of Plato by Plato, Benjamin Jowett (1908)
"This is proved by the circumstance that there are pleasures which have no antecedent
pains (as he also remarks in the Philebus), such as the pleasures of ..."
3. A Treatise of Human Nature by David Hume (1874)
"According to Locke present pleasures may be compared with future, pleasures he
has actually chosen and any truer sort—it still only throws us back on a ..."
4. The Republic of Plato: An Ideal Commonwealth by Plato (1901)
"Very true, I said; and observe the point which I want to understand: Certain of
the unnecessary pleasures and appetites I conceive to be unlawful; ..."
5. The Nicomachean Ethics of Aristotle by Aristotle (1897)
"What are these pleasures ! They are not mental pleasures such as ambition or the
love of learning, neither are they innocent pleasures such as the pleasures ..."
6. The Republic of Plato by Plato, Benjamin Jowett (1908)
"This is proved by the circumstance that there are pleasures which have no antecedent
pains (as he also remarks in the Philebus), such as the pleasures of ..."
7. A Treatise of Human Nature by David Hume (1874)
"According to Locke present pleasures may be compared with future, pleasures he
has actually chosen and any truer sort—it still only throws us back on a ..."
8. The Republic of Plato: An Ideal Commonwealth by Plato (1901)
"Very true, I said; and observe the point which I want to understand: Certain of
the unnecessary pleasures and appetites I conceive to be unlawful; ..."
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