Definition of "pleasure"

But the only statistic that will concern West Brom will be the scoreline, and their manager Roy Hodgson will take considerable pleasure from a victory over the club he managed for just 191 days.

2012 April 22, Sam Sheringham, “Liverpool 0-1 West Brom”, in BBC Sport

Maximize all the pleasure / Even with all this weather / Nothing can make it better / Maximize all the pleasure

2019, Toro y Moi (lyrics and music), “Ordinary Pleasure”, in Outer Peace

Festus, willing to do the Jews a pleasure

1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], Acts 25:9

The humor of my proposition appealed more strongly to Miss Trevor than I had looked for, and from that time forward she became her old self again; […] . Now she had come to look upon the matter in its true proportions, and her anticipation of a possible chance of teaching him a lesson was a pleasure to behold.

1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter VIII, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd.

In order to grant the rich these pleasures, the social contract is reconfigured. The welfare state is dismantled. […]

2013 May 17, George Monbiot, “Money just makes the rich suffer”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 188, number 23, page 19

Use your pleasure; if your love do not persuade you to come, let not my letter.

c. 1596–1598 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, [Act III, scene ii]

He will do his pleasure on Babylon.

1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], Isaiah 48:14

[H]e / [...] / Had tost his ball and flown his kite, and roll'd / His hoop to pleasure Edith, [...]

1864, Alfred Tennyson, “Aylmer’s Field”, in Enoch Arden, &c., London: Edward Moxon & Co., […], page 55