Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act of taking pleasure; a pleasure-trip.
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- verb Present participle of
pleasure .
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Examples
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This self-pleasuring is the very form of the meditating
Hegel on Buddhism 2007
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Moreover, he loved her very dearly and spent all his substance in pleasuring and merry-making with her, til he had naught left and extreme poverty was sore upon him.
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Are you so full of prospects you can be turning your nose up at the idea of pleasuring the man without benefit of clergy?
Earl of Durkness Alix Rickloff 2011
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Are you so full of prospects you can be turning your nose up at the idea of pleasuring the man without benefit of clergy?
Earl of Durkness Alix Rickloff 2011
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Are you so full of prospects you can be turning your nose up at the idea of pleasuring the man without benefit of clergy?
Earl of Durkness Alix Rickloff 2011
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Scarier still is the notion of pleasuring oneself.
Ms. Magazine Online 2009
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Scarier still is the notion of pleasuring oneself.
Ms. Magazine Online 2009
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A woman famous for allegedly having an affair with a married man David Beckham and , erm, "pleasuring" a pig on national TV.
Archive 2006-05-01 Kerron Cross 2006
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A woman famous for allegedly having an affair with a married man David Beckham and , erm, "pleasuring" a pig on national TV.
Loos Woman Kerron Cross 2006
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When one has voluntarily endured a condition of semi-suffocation throughout an evening's "pleasuring" for the unselfish reason of providing amusement for others, it's a poor thing if one cannot be assisted to lemonade in return.
A College Girl George de Horne Vaizey 1887
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