"leasure" meaning in English

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Noun

Head templates: {{en-noun|-}} leasure (uncountable)
  1. Obsolete spelling of leisure. Tags: alt-of, obsolete, uncountable Alternative form of: leisure
    Sense id: en-leasure-en-noun-ofc4SIG6 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 79 21 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 81 19 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 86 14
  2. Misspelling of leisure. Tags: alt-of, misspelling, uncountable Alternative form of: leisure
    Sense id: en-leasure-en-noun-DsSiBDBE
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          "text": "To Scriptures read they muſt their leaſure frame, / Then loath they will both luſt and wanton love; […]",
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          "text": "Her garments all were wrought of beaten gold, / And all her ſteed with tinſell trappings ſhone, / Which fledd ſo faſt, that nothing mote him hold, / And ſcarſe them leaſure gaue, her paſſing to behold.",
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          "text": "And ſurely if the purpoſe be in good earneſt not to vvrite at leaſure that vvhich mẽ [men] may read at leaſure, but really to inſtruct and ſuborne Action and actiue life, theſe Georgickes of the mind concerning the huſbãdry & tillage thereof, are no leſſe vvorthy thẽ the heroical deſcriptiõs of vertue, duty, & felicity vvherfore the maine & primitiue diuiſion of Morall knovvledge ſeemeth to be into the Exemplar or Platforme of Good, and the Regiment or Culture of the mind; […]",
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          "text": "When Cato Utican, in vacation times, and at his beſt leaſure, went to recreate himſelf in the country, he uſed to cary with him the beſt Philoſophers, and choiſeſt bookes.",
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