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Delight   /dɪlˈaɪt/   Listen
noun
Delight  n.  
1.
A high degree of gratification of mind; a high- wrought state of pleasurable feeling; lively pleasure; extreme satisfaction; joy. "Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not." "A fool hath no delight in understanding."
2.
That which gives great pleasure or delight. "Heaven's last, best gift, my ever new delight."
3.
Licentious pleasure; lust. (Obs.)



verb
Delight  v. t.  (past & past part. delighted; pres. part. delighting)  To give delight to; to affect with great pleasure; to please highly; as, a beautiful landscape delights the eye; harmony delights the ear. "Inventions to delight the taste." "Delight our souls with talk of knightly deeds."



Delight  v. i.  To have or take great delight or pleasure; to be greatly pleased or rejoiced; followed by an infinitive, or by in. "Love delights in praises." "I delight to do thy will, O my God."






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"Delight" Quotes from Famous Books



... Lorraine's companion for several nights, coming and going as she fancied, always sure of a welcome. To her the flat was a constant delight, and in the evening she loved to sit on the verandah and watch the gliding river - not to sentimentalise and dream, but because she loved London with all her heart and soul and strenght, and to her the river was as the city's ...
— Winding Paths • Gertrude Page

... very dear sir," cried the Colonel, well-nigh hysterical with wonder and delight, "I insist on your coming down at once from that tree and partaking of luncheon with me. I have some excellent '49 port, and we'll discuss the two subjects together. Really, it is very remiss of me ...
— The Harmsworth Magazine, v. 1, 1898-1899, No. 2 • Various

... master of his own household. The services of freedmen—readily rendered when he was prosperous—would now be a matter of favour and personal attachment, which was not always sufficient to retain them. The "life and light" of the city, in which no man ever took a more eager interest and delight, were closed to him. He was cut off from his family, and from familiar intercourse with friends, on both of which he was much dependent for personal happiness. Lastly, wherever he lived, he lived, as it were, on sufferance, no longer an object of respect as a ...
— The Letters of Cicero, Volume 1 - The Whole Extant Correspodence in Chronological Order • Marcus Tullius Cicero

... am sure that you won't think me unkind if I go on with my work, especially when I tell you that I was ill and unable to do anything all through April and May; and this open-air and the sun and the work together, and my feeling well again too, make a mere delight of every hour to me; and excuse me, ...
— News from Nowhere - or An Epoch of Rest, being some chapters from A Utopian Romance • William Morris

... grafted on black walnut,—a difficult piece of propagation, however. A tree in St. Paul, on the boulevard, thrives next to a large butternut, and bears nuts practically every year which the squirrels delight in cutting down while still green. This tree is not bothered by the curculio since the curculio does not infest the large butternut ...
— Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the 44th Annual Meeting • Various


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