leisure
/ˈliʒɚ/ noun A2- Freedom provided by the cessation of activities.
- Free time, time free from work or duties.
- Time at one's command, free from engagement; convenient opportunity; hence, convenience; ease.
Plural leisures
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When she is secure of him, there will be leisure for falling in love as much as she chooses.”
In his library he had been always sure of leisure and tranquillity; and though prepared, as he told Elizabeth, to meet with folly and conceit in every other room in the house, he was used to be free from them there: his civility, therefore, was most prompt in inviting Mr.
Collins was at leisure to look around him and admire, and he was so much struck with the size and furniture of the apartment, that he declared he might almost have supposed himself in the small summer breakfast parlour at Rosings; a comparison that did not at first convey much gratification; but when Mrs.
Wickham was therefore at leisure to talk to Elizabeth, and she was very willing to hear him, though what she chiefly wished to hear she could not hope to be told, the history of his acquaintance with Mr.
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