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DELIGHT n. 5 definitions

ble feeling; lively pleasure; extreme satisfaction; joy. Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not. Shak. A fool hath no delight in understanding. Prov. xviii. 2.

Capable of delighting; delightful. [Obs.] Many a spice delightable. Rom. of R.

Endowed with delight. If virtue no delighted beauty lack. Shak.

DELIGHTEDLY adv.

With delight; gladly.

One who gives or takes delight.

Highly pleasing; affording great pleasure and satisfaction. "Delightful bowers." Spenser. "Delightful fruit." Milton.

Giving delight; gladdening. -- De*light"ing*ly, adv. Jer. Taylor.

Void of delight. Thomson.

Delightful. [Obs.] Rom. of R.

Very pleasing; delightful. "Delightsome vigor." Grew. Ye shall be a delightsome land, . . . saith the Lord. Mal. iii. 12. -- De*light"some*ly, adv. -- De*light"some*ness, n.

OVERDELIGHTED a.

Delighted beyond measure.

Wonder mingled with approbation or delight; an emotion excited by a person or thing possessed of wonderful or high excellence; as, admiration of a beautiful woman, of a landscape, of virtue.

To regard with wonder and delight; to look upon with an elevated feeling of pleasure, as something which calls out approbation, esteem, love, or reverence; to estimate or prize highly; as, to admire a person of high moral worth, to admire a landscape. Admired as heroes and as gods obeyed. Pope.

Regarded with wonder and delight; highly prized; as, an admired poem.

Paroxysm of joy; keen emotion. With cries and agonies of wild delight. Pope.

An exclamation, expressive of surprise, pity, complaint, entreaty, contempt, threatening, delight, triumph, etc., according to the manner of utterance.

Consisting of, or partaking of the nature of, ambrosia; delighting the taste or smell; delicious. "Ambrosial food." "Ambrosial fragrance." Milton.

AMBROSIALLY adv.

After the manner of ambrosia; delightfully. "Smelt ambrosially." Tennyson.

Of or relating to, or produced by, love. "Amorous delight." Milton. "Amorous airs." Waller.

obliterate. Light, the prime work of God, to me's extinct. And all her various objects of delight Annulled. Milton.