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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:
- what delight means
- what delights you
- what delights god
- what delights the lord
- what delights you about the lord
- what delights god's heart
- what delights are there for the passengers of the train
- what delighted mary
recreate
English
Etymology 1
From the participle stem of Latin recreare (“to restore”), from re- (“re-”) + creare (“to create”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /???k??e?t/
Verb
recreate (third-person singular simple present recreates, present participle recreating, simple past and past participle recreated)
- (transitive) To give new life, energy or encouragement (to); to refresh, enliven.
- 1695, John Dryden (translator), Observations on the Art of Painting by Charles Alphonse du Fresnoy
- Painters, when they work on white grounds, place before them colours mixed with blue and green, to recreate their eyes, white wearying […] the sight more than any.
- 1688, Henry More, Divine Dialogues
- These ripe fruit […] recreate the nostrils with their aromatick scent.
- 1695, John Dryden (translator), Observations on the Art of Painting by Charles Alphonse du Fresnoy
- (reflexive) To enjoy or entertain oneself.
- In Italy, though they bide in cities in winter, which is more gentlemanlike, all the summer they come abroad to their country-houses, to recreate themselves.
- 1650, Jeremy Taylor, The Rule and Exercises of Holy Living
- St. John, who recreated himself with sporting with a tame partridge
- (intransitive) To take recreation.
- 2004, Forbes (volume 173, issues 4-9, page 156)
- Phonecams are proliferating like mad, their tiny eyes fuzzily probing so many corners of public and private life that they have begun to alter how people communicate and recreate.
- 2004, Forbes (volume 173, issues 4-9, page 156)
Synonyms
- (refresh): encourage, enliven, refresh
- (amuse): amuse, delight, enjoy
Related terms
- recreation
Translations
Etymology 2
re- +? create
Alternative forms
- re-create
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?i?k???e?t/
Verb
recreate (third-person singular simple present recreates, present participle recreating, simple past and past participle recreated)
- To create anew.
Translations
Latin
Verb
recre?te
- second-person plural present active imperative of recre?
recreate From the web:
- what creates wind
- what created the universe
- what creates a magnetic field
- what created the big bang
- what created the grand canyon
- what creates lightning
- what creates gravity
- what creates earth's magnetic field
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