different between pleasance vs pleasaunce

English

Etymology

Old French plaisance.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?pl?z?ns/

Noun

pleasance (countable and uncountable, plural pleasances)

1. (obsolete) Willingness to please, or the action of pleasing; courtesy. [14th-17th c.]
2. (obsolete) The feeling of being pleased; pleasure, delight. [14th-19th c.]
   • 1579, Edmund Spenser, The Shepheardes Calender, in Francis J Child (editor), The Poetical Works of Edmund Spenser, volume III, Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company 1855, OCLC 793557671, page 406, lines 222–228:

     Now stands the Brere like a lord alone, / Puffed up with pryde and vaine pleasaunce.

3. Grounds laid out with shady walks, trees and shrubs, statuary, and ornamental water; a secluded part of a garden. [from 16th c.]
   • 1859, John Ruskin, The Two Paths

     the pleasances of old Elizabethan houses

   • 1924, EM Forster, A Passage to India, Penguin 2005, p. 6:

     It is a tropical pleasance, washed by a noble river.

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?pl?z(?)ns/

Noun

pleasaunce (countable and uncountable, plural pleasaunces)

1. Obsolete form of pleasance.
2. A pleasure-garden; a region of garden with the sole purpose of giving pleasure to the senses, but not offering fruit or sustenance.
   • 1888, Oscar Wilde, A House of Pomegranates:

     And he looked in the mirror, and, seeing his own face, he gave a great cry and woke, and the bright sunlight was streaming into the room, and from the trees of the garden and pleasaunce the birds were singing.

   • 1904, Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Land of the Blue Flower:

     King Amor planted the seed in a pleasaunce of its own. It grew into the most beautiful blue flower the world had ever known.

   • 1928, Virginia Woolf, Orlando:

     It must be remembered that she was like a child, entering into possession of a pleasaunce or toycupboard; her arguments would not commend themselves to mature women, who have had the run of it all their lives.

   • 1858, William Morris, ‘Sir Galahad’:

     No maid will talk / Of sitting on my tomb, until the leaves, / Grown big upon the bushes of the walk, / East of the Palace-pleasaunce, make it hard / To see the minster therefrom […]