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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



... precious one, A thread of gold within the woof. All my happiness rests upon thee, Thou art my greatest delight. Thine eyes are lovely and bright, As the rays of my father the Sun. When thy lips are moving to speak, When thine eyelids are raised with a smile, The wide world is fairly entranced. Thy breathing embalms the fresh air; Without thee thy father would pine, Life to him would ...
— Apu Ollantay - A Drama of the Time of the Incas • Sir Clements R. Markham
... 1/2 lb. is regarded as a mere minnow by the man who has drunk the deep delight of landing a fish of the normal weight of 6 or 7 lb.; yet this seemed to have been the average. Put it down to the east wind by all means. An honest Thames trout, properly educated up to the modern standard, would be unworthy of the confidence of the great metropolitan angling ...
— Lines in Pleasant Places - Being the Aftermath of an Old Angler • William Senior
... evidently the Sioux had balked at the time this stout box would take for opening, and had passed on. Dick, feeling sure that it must contain something of value, broke the padlock with the head of the ax. When he looked in he uttered a cry of delight ...
— The Last of the Chiefs - A Story of the Great Sioux War • Joseph Altsheler
... the orange boughs, and floated to the ears of the parson, as he wound slowly up the gentle ascent,—so sweet, so silvery, he paused in delight—unaware, wretched man! that he was thereby conniving at Papistical errors. Soft it came and sweet; softer and sweeter,—"Ave Maria!" Violante was chanting the evening hymn to the Virgin Mother. The parson at last distinguished the sense ...
— My Novel, Complete • Edward Bulwer-Lytton
... relation called forth from Sibyll, her clasped hands, her evident emotion of delight and love, so pained poor Alwyn, that he rose ...
— The Last Of The Barons, Complete • Edward Bulwer-Lytton


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