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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)

  1. 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.
  2. 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.

Derived terms

  • undelight
  • delightful

Translations

Verb

delight (third-person singular simple present delights, present participle delighting, simple past and past participle delighted)

  1. 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.
  2. (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.
    • 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.

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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beatitude

English

Etymology

From French béatitude, from Latin be?tit?d? (happiness, blessedness), from be?tus (happy, blessed).

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /bi??æt?tju?d/
  • (General American) IPA(key): /bi?æt?tud/
  • Hyphenation: be?a?ti?tude

Noun

beatitude (plural beatitudes)

  1. (uncountable) Supreme, utmost bliss and happiness.
    • 1887, Arthur Conan Doyle, A Study in Scarlet, part 1, chapter 6
      Here is Gregson coming down the road with beatitude written upon every feature of his face.
  2. Any one of the Biblical blessings given by Jesus in Matthew 5:3–12. E.g.: "Blessed are the meek for they shall inherit the earth"(Matthew 5:5).

Translations

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