pleasingly

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English

Etymology

From Middle English plesingliche; equivalent to pleasing +‎ -ly.

Adverb

pleasingly (comparative more pleasingly, superlative most pleasingly)

  1. In a pleasing manner; agreeably; favourably.
    • 1749, [John Cleland], “(Please specify the letter or volume)”, in Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure [Fanny Hill], London: for G. Fenton  , →OCLC:
      I not only then tighten'd the pleasure-girth round my restless inmate by a secret spring of friction and compres- sion that obeys the will in those parts, but stole my hand softly to that store bag of nature's prime sweets, which is so pleasingly attach'd to its conduit pipe, from which we receive them;

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