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comfort
English
Etymology
The verb is from Middle English conforten, from Old French conforter, from Late Latin confort? (“to strengthen greatly”), itself from Latin con- (“together”) + fortis (“strong”).
The noun is from Middle English confort, from Old French cunfort, confort, from the stem of Late Latin confort?. It replaced Old English frofor, Middle English frovre.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?k?m.f?t/
- (Northern England) IPA(key): /?k?m.f?t/
- (General American) enPR: k?m'f?rt, IPA(key): /?k?m.f?t/, [?k???.f?t]
- (obsolete) enPR: k?mfôrt', IPA(key): /k?m?f??t/
Noun
comfort (countable and uncountable, plural comforts)
- Contentment, ease.
- Something that offers comfort.
- A consolation; something relieving suffering or worry.
- A cause of relief or satisfaction.
Synonyms
- liss
Antonyms
- (contentment, ease): austerity
Translations
Verb
comfort (third-person singular simple present comforts, present participle comforting, simple past and past participle comforted)
- (transitive) To relieve the distress or suffering of; to provide comfort to.
- (transitive) To make comfortable. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
- (obsolete) To make strong; to invigorate; to fortify; to corroborate.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Wyclif to this entry?)
- 1594, Richard Hooker, Of the Lawes of Ecclesiastical Politie
- God's own testimony […] doth not a little comfort and confirm the same.
- (obsolete) To assist or help; to aid.
Synonyms
- besoothe
Translations
Derived terms
Dutch
Etymology
From Middle Dutch confoort, from Old French confort.
Pronunciation
- (Netherlands) IPA(key): /k?m?f??r/
- (Belgium) IPA(key): /k?m?f?r(t)/
- Hyphenation: com?fort
Noun
comfort n (plural comforts, diminutive comfortje n)
- Physical comfort, ease.
Derived terms
- comfortabel
- ligcomfort
- rijcomfort
- zitcomfort
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delight
English
Etymology
An unetymological spelling, in imitation of words like light, might, etc.; the analogical modern spelling would be delite; from Middle English delite, from Old French deleiter, deliter, from Latin delectare (“to delight, please”), frequentative of delicere (“to allure”); see delectation and delicate.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /d??la?t/, /d??la?t/
- Rhymes: -a?t
Noun
delight (countable and uncountable, plural delights)
- Joy; pleasure.
- 1611, King James Version of the Bible, Proverbs 18.2,[1]
- A fool hath no delight in understanding.
- c. 1611, William Shakespeare, The Tempest, Act III, Scene 2,[2]
- […] the isle is full of noises,
- Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:delight.
- 1611, King James Version of the Bible, Proverbs 18.2,[1]
- Something that gives great joy or pleasure.
- 1580, Greensleeves,
- Greensleeves was all my joy / Greensleeves was my delight, […]
- 1667, John Milton, Paradise Lost, Book 5, lines 17-19,[3]
- […] Awake
- My fairest, my espous’d, my latest found,
- Heav’ns last best gift, my ever new delight,
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:delight.
- 1580, Greensleeves,
Derived terms
- undelight
- delightful
Translations
Verb
delight (third-person singular simple present delights, present participle delighting, simple past and past participle delighted)
- To give delight to; to affect with great pleasure; to please highly.
- 1842, Tennyson, Le Morte d’Arthur:
- Delight our souls with talk of knightly deeds.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:delight.
- 1842, Tennyson, Le Morte d’Arthur:
- (intransitive) To have or take great pleasure.
- c. 1515–1516, published 1568, John Skelton, Again?t venemous tongues enpoy?oned with ?claunder and fal?e detractions &c.:
- A ?claunderous tunge, a tunge of a ?kolde,
Worketh more mi?chiefe than can be tolde;
That, if I wi?t not to be controlde,
Yet ?omwhat to ?ay I dare well be bolde,
How ?ome delite for to lye, thycke and threfolde.
- A ?claunderous tunge, a tunge of a ?kolde,
- 1580, Greensleeves:
- For I have loved you well and long, / Delighting in your company.
- 1908, T.J. Griffths, The Cambrian (volume 28, page 504)
- He was an eisteddfodwr and delighted to hear good singing, whether it was in the sanctuary or at the eisteddfodic gatherings.
- c. 1515–1516, published 1568, John Skelton, Again?t venemous tongues enpoy?oned with ?claunder and fal?e detractions &c.:
Derived terms
- delight in
- duping delight
Related terms
- delicacy
- delicate
- delicatessen
- delicious
Translations
Further reading
- delight in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- delight in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
Anagrams
- gildeth, glideth, lighted
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