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deliciousness|dɪˈlɪʃəsnɪs|
[f. as prec. + -ness.]
1. The quality of being delicious, or highly pleasing (now esp. to the senses): see the adj.
1398Trevisa Barth. De P.R. vi. xxiii. (1495) 213 Delycyousnes of all that is sette on the borde. c1400Test. Love Prol. (1560) 271 b/2 Many men there been, that with eeres openly sprad, so moch swalowen the deliciousnesse of jestes and of ryme. 1592Shakes. Rom. & Jul. ii. vi. 12 The sweetest honey Is loathsome in its owne deliciousnesse. a1652J. Smith Sel. Disc. i. 12 There is an inward sweetness and deliciousness in divine truth, which no sensual mind can taste or relish. 1751Johnson Rambler No. 127 ⁋4 The deliciousness of ease commonly makes us unwilling to return to labour. 1860Hawthorne Marble Faun xxiv, There was a deliciousness in it that eluded analysis.
†b. (with pl.) A delight. Obs.
1749G. Lavington Enthus. Meth. & Papists (1754) I. 57 A Woman quite deserted, and the Vein of her Spiritual Deliciousnesses dried up in her Aridities.
†2. Voluptuousness, luxuriousness, luxury. Obs.
c1440Gesta Rom. i. xxvi. 101 (Harl. MS.) He folowithe deliciousnes of the fleshe. 1579Lyly Euphues (Arb.) 179 Philautus, hath giuen ouer himselfe to all deliciousnesse, desiring..to be dandled in the laps of Ladyes. 1580North Plutarch (1676) 37 He thought..to banish out of the City all insolency, envy, covetousness, and deliciousness. 1650Jer. Taylor Holy Living (1727) 242 Do not seek for deliciousness and sensible consolations in the actions of religion.
†3. Fondness for what gives pleasure. Obs.
1548Udall, etc. Erasm. Par. Luke xvi. 25 So great was the deliciousnes of thy mouth. |