The toures hy ful plesaunt shul ye find, 160 With fanes fressh, turning with every wind.
And right as, while they be nat, it is nat nedeful hem to be, so ofte it is nat nedeful that somtyme they shulde be.
Time was divided into three ages; first, the age of Error, before the coming of Christ; all that died then went to hell, whence some were rescued by Christ when He descended thither.
Not all prioresses were, like Chaucer's, "ful plesaunt and amiable of port.
Ful semely after hir mete she raughte, And sikerly she was of greet disport, And ful plesaunt and amiable of port, And peyned hir to countrefete chere Of court, and been estatlich of manere, And to be holden digne of reverence.
Within theyr hartys they planted theyr scyence And nat in plesaunt bokes.
Ac charite that Poul preiseth best, And moost plesaunt to oure Lord, Is Non inflatur, non est ambitiosa, non quaerit quae sua sunt, etc.
Wheither paciente poverte," quod Haukyn, "Be moore plesaunt to our Drighte Than richesse rightfulliche wonne, And resonably despended?
For ther that richesse regneth, Reverence folweth; And that is plesaunt to pride, 9330 In poore and in riche.
All prioresses were not 'ful plesauntand amiable of port', or stately in their manner.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "plesaunt" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
