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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
delight From the web:
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- what delights god
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- what delights god's heart
- what delights are there for the passengers of the train
- what delighted mary
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)
- (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.
- 1887, Arthur Conan Doyle, A Study in Scarlet, part 1, chapter 6
- 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
beatitude From the web:
- what beatitudes mean
- what beatitudes are there
- what beatitudes
- what beatitude is related to solidarity
- what beatitude i find it hard to observe
- what does beatitudes mean
- what are the 3 beatitudes
- what are examples of beatitudes
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