A.Word.A.Day

placentious

PRONUNCIATION:

MEANING:

adjective: Pleasing or inclined to please.

ETYMOLOGY:

From Latin placentia (pleasantness), from placere (to please). Earliest documented use: 1661.

USAGE:

“[John Walbye was] a placentious person, gaining the good-will of all with whom he conversed, being also ingenious, industrious, learned, eloquent, pious, and prudent.”

Thomas Fuller; The History of the Worthies of England; T. Tegg; 1840.

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