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pleasuring

pleasuring

English

Verb

pleasuring

  1. present participle of pleasure

Noun

pleasuring (plural pleasurings)

  1. An act of giving (sometimes sexual) pleasure.
    • 1882, Robert Louis Stevenson, Familiar Studies of Men and Books
      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.