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delightn.

Brit. /dᵻˈlʌɪt/, U.S. /dəˈlaɪt/, /diˈlaɪt/
Forms:

α. Middle English delijt, Middle English delytte, Middle English–1500s delit, Middle English–1500s delite, Middle English–1500s delyt, Middle English–1600s delyte, 1500s dellyte; Scottish pre-1700 delit, pre-1700 delite, pre-1700 delitt, pre-1700 delyitt, pre-1700 delyt, pre-1700 delyte, pre-1700 dilyit.

β. Middle English deliȝte, Middle English deliht, Middle English delyȝte, Middle English (in a late copy)–1600s delyght, 1500s dellight, 1500s–1600s delighte, 1500s–1600s delyghte, 1500s– delight; Scottish pre-1700 delyght, pre-1700 1700s– delight, pre-1700 1800s– delicht.

Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymons: French delit, delite.
Etymology: < Anglo-Norman delite (also deliht ), Anglo-Norman and Old French, Middle French delit great pleasure or happiness (early 12th cent.), (specifically) sexual pleasure or gratification (late 12th cent. or earlier), sexual intercourse (late 13th cent. or earlier) < delitier , deliter delight v. Compare delite adj.Compare Old Occitan delech , Catalan delit (c1300), Spanish deleite (a1207), Portuguese deleite (13th cent.), Italian diletto (a1250), and also ( < French) post-classical Latin delectus (early 13th cent. in a British source). Specific forms. The β. forms, attested from the 14th cent. onwards, show reverse spellings by analogy with light n.1, flight n.1, etc., and became more common than the α. forms during the 16th cent.; in Scots such spellings have even given rise to the spelling pronunciation /dᵻˈlɪxt/. Specific phrases. With to have delight at Phrases 1 compare Anglo-Norman and Old French aver envie, Middle French, French avoir envie (late 12th cent.).
1. Great pleasure or happiness. In earlier use also: spec. sexual pleasure or gratification.Possibly recorded earliest in to have delight at Phrases 1, but the date of the earliest example is uncertain.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > emotion > pleasure > joy, gladness, or delight > [noun]
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mirtheOE
playeOE
dreamOE
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lissOE
willOE
hightOE
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winOE
blissc1175
delices?c1225
delight?c1225
joy?c1225
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lightnessa1350
delectationc1384
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blithec1400
fainc1400
delicacyc1405
gladsomeness1413
reveriea1425
joyousitiea1450
joyfulnessc1485
jucundity1536
joyousness1549
joc1560
delightfulness1565
jouissance1579
joyance1590
levitya1631
revelling1826
chuckle1837
joyancy1849
a song in one's heart1862
delightsomeness1866
?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 199 Son se me..let þe lust gan inward & þe delit waxen.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Fairf. 14) l. 8164 Þai hai[l]sed him wiþ grete delite.
a1425 (?a1400) G. Chaucer Romaunt Rose (Hunterian) (1891) l. 5095 Fleshly delite is so present With thee.
1559 W. Baldwin et al. Myrroure for Magistrates Clarence xxxix In study set his hole delite.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Tempest (1623) iii. ii. 139 Sounds, and sweet aires, that giue delight and hurt not. View more context for this quotation
1700 J. Dryden Fables 545 New as he was to Love, and Novice in Delight.
1796 A. Witts Diary 12 Apr. in Edinb. Diary (2016) 277 An excellent meeting & my beloved Frank perform'd to the delight of all who were interested about him.
1851 Chambers' Edinb. Jrnl. 10 May 290/1 The whole visible economy and adaptations of the world have a practical relation to the wants and conveniences of man, and were evidently designed for his service and delight.
1937 Life 16 Aug. 22/1 (caption) Bloodhounds..yap their delight when they come to an open road, sniff the killer's warm scent.
2018 Washington Post Mag. (Nexis) 25 Nov. a25 The announcement was met with surprise and delight.
2. A cause or source of great pleasure or happiness; a delightful person or thing. In Middle English: spec. sexual intercourse.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > emotion > pleasure > joy, gladness, or delight > quality of causing joy or delight > [noun] > an instance or source of joy or delight
playeOE
mirthOE
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winOE
sunbeamc1175
delight?c1225
joyc1275
delightingc1350
joying1388
delicec1390
delectation?a1425
rejoice1445
delectabilitiesa1500
deliciositiesa1500
delectables1547
delicacy1586
venery1607
deliciousness1651
thrilling1747
peaches and cream1920
?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 82 Þis cos..aswetnesse & a delit of heorte.
a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1879) VII. 83 (MED) Þis Ive..forsaked al þe delites [L. deliciis] of þe world.
c1405 (c1395) G. Chaucer Franklin's Tale (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 688 Maydens hadden swich despit To been defouled with mannes foul delit.
a1425 (a1400) Prick of Conscience (Galba & Harl.) (1863) 269 In his delytis settes his hert fast.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Merry Wives of Windsor (1623) v. v. 149 Why Sir Iohn, do you thinke..that euer the deuill could haue made you our delight ? View more context for this quotation
1711 A. Pope Ess. Crit. 9 Be Homer's Works your Study, and Delight.
1807 B. H. Malkin Scenery, Antiq. & Biogr. South Wales I. xii. 393 Corn-fields, orchards, and all the delights of fertility and cultivation, detain the feasted eye.
1917 J. Martin Diary 16 Nov. in Sapper Martin (2010) 133 Their chief delight is to stand gloomily at street corners, wrapped round in their big cloaks or capes, muffled up to the nose and wearing broad slouch hats.
2013 @ZaZaDallas 7 July in twitter.com (accessed 5 Nov. 2019) We're celebrating Bastille Day..with a 4-course prix-fixe menu of French culinary delights.
3. The quality of giving great pleasure or happiness; delightfulness, charm.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > emotion > pleasure > joy, gladness, or delight > quality of causing joy or delight > [noun]
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deliciositya1398
joya1400
delightabilityc1440
deliciousnessa1450
delectablenessc1487
delicity?c1500
delectability1565
delightsomenessa1568
delightfulness1570
joyance1847
a1250 Ureisun ure Louerde (Lamb.) in R. Morris Old Eng. Homilies (1868) 1st Ser. 187 Hwi nis me unwurhþ elc wurþliche þing aȝein þe muchel delit of þi swetnesse.
c1330 (?a1300) Arthour & Merlin (Auch.) (1973) l. 358 Fortiger..held fest..Of gret delite and noble play.
c1430 (c1386) G. Chaucer Legend Good Women (Cambr. Gg.4.27) (1879) l. 1199 Vp on a thikke palfrey paper whit With sadyl red enbroudit with delyt..Sit Dido.
a1513 W. Dunbar Poems (1998) I. 167 No flour is so perfyt, So full of vertew, plesans and delyt.
1662 B. Gerbier Brief Disc. Princ. Building 38 The Louver at Paris..with the delight of the annexed Tuilleries.
1807 W. Wordsworth Poems I. 14 She was a Phantom of delight, When first she gleam'd upon my sight.
1922 Gardeners' Chron. Amer. Jan. 18/1 The secret of the delight of ‘bonsai’ lies in the reproduction of a piece of natural scenery in a tiny spot.
2014 @DeliaCazzato 17 Oct. in twitter.com (accessed 5 Nov. 2019) Wow the shop window @oxfampinner a vision of delight.

Phrases

P1. to have (a) delight. Also with modifying adjective.
a. To take pleasure in something, or in doing something.
ΚΠ
c1225 (?c1200) Hali Meiðhad (Bodl.) (1940) l. 75 & habbeð mare delit þrin þen ei oðer habbe i licunge of þe worlt.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 23349 Bot suld þai haf a gret delite, To se þam setlid in þair site.
a1569 A. Kingsmill Conf. containing Conflict with Satan sig. Dv in Most Excellent & Comfortable Treat. (1577) When he hath a delite in that yt he doeth.
1742 W. Warburton Crit. & Philos. Comm. Pope's Ess. on Man 144 His having no Delight in any thing uncommunicated or uncommunicable.
1824 Cobbett's Weekly Reg. 4 Sept. 724 Among the many symptoms of dawning prosperity to Ireland, which he had delight in observing, there was none which could have greater influence on the feelings of those who took any interest in the condition of that unhappy country, than the fact that they had with them the best wishes of a gracious Sovereign.
1905 Country Life in Amer. Apr. 652/2 The butterfly collector must have..a delight in the outdoor chase.
2015 Taranaki (N.Z.) Daily News (Nexis) 16 Jan. 3 I've had the greatest delight in telling everyone I'm not dead.
b. To have a desire to do something; to wish to do. Obsolete.
ΚΠ
1477 Earl Rivers tr. Dictes or Sayengis Philosophhres (Caxton) (1877) lf. 1 I had delyte & axed to rede somme good historye.
1488 (c1478) Hary Actis & Deidis Schir William Wallace (Adv.) (1968–9) ix. l. 8 The nobill king..Had gret delyte this Wallace for to se.
1561 T. Hoby tr. B. Castiglione Courtyer iii. sig. kk.iiiv All women haue a delite to be suide to in loue, althoughe they were mynded to denye the suite.
1741 J. Seacome Memoirs 195 They beare Sir John Stanley Malice and Spyte But to Reincounter with him none had Delight.
P2. to take delight: to take pleasure in something, or in doing something. Also with to-infinitive. Also with modifying adjective.
ΚΠ
1484 W. Caxton tr. G. de la Tour-Landry Bk. Knight of Tower (1971) xliiii. 67 The delite that men take in the sauoure and etyng of them.
1573 G. Gascoigne Hundreth Sundrie Flowres 315 Mine eyes, take no delight to raunge, About the gleames, which on your face do growe.
1609 W. Shakespeare Sonnets xxxvii. sig. C4v As a decrepit father takes delight, To see his actiue childe do deeds of youth. View more context for this quotation
1726 W. R. Chetwood Voy. & Adventures Capt. R. Boyle 28 Gardening was what I always took delight in.
1820 J. Clare Poems Rural Life (ed. 3) 125 Who takes delight To shool her knitting out at night.
1875 B. Jowett in tr. Plato Dialogues (ed. 2) III. 184 The branch of knowledge..in which he takes the greatest delight.
2019 W. Austral. (Perth) (Nexis) 31 July 13 The fascination with Lego starts with Duplo-style bricks and toddlers taking great delight in knocking down any tower mum or dad may build.

Compounds

delight-taking n. rare after 17th cent. the action or practice of taking pleasure (in something or someone).
ΚΠ
1603 R. Rogers Seuen Treat. v. xii. 471 This euill riseth from the heart which is stuffed with sundrie corruptions, (as distrust, too great delight-taking in the world, rashnesse, desire of getting, feare of losing, &c.).
1678 C. Pora Sovereign Balson ii. iii. i. 551 Having the grace to be free from complacency or delight-taking in evil thoughts, and the care..to cast them out of your mind, so soon as you percieve them, or reflect upon what you are thinking, fear not, you are pure.
1999 Dædalus Winter 157 Any pursuit can be carried on in a liberal spirit, from accountancy to ontology... From this wide perspective the mark of liberality is simply disinterested delight-taking.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2020; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

delightv.

Brit. /dᵻˈlʌɪt/, U.S. /dəˈlaɪt/, /diˈlaɪt/
Forms:

α. Middle English delith (3rd singular), Middle English deliti, Middle English delytt, Middle English dilyte, Middle English–1500s delyte, Middle English–1600s delite, 1500s delyt; Scottish pre-1700 delit, pre-1700 delite, pre-1700 delitt, pre-1700 dellyte, pre-1700 delyt, pre-1700 delyte.

β. Middle English– delight, 1500s–1600s delyght; also Scottish pre-1700 1800s– delicht.

Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymons: French delitier, deliter.
Etymology: < Anglo-Norman and Old French delitier, Anglo-Norman and Middle French deliter, Middle French delitter to give delight (c1150), to take delight (c1150 used reflexively, 13th cent. used intransitively with the preposition en ), to give delight to (a person) (late 12th cent.) < classical Latin dēlectāre to allure, entice, to charm, please, frequentative of dēlicere to lure, entice < dē- de- prefix + lacere to entice (see oblectate v.). Compare delight n., and also delicious adj.Compare Old Occitan delectar , Catalan delitar (14th cent.), Spanish delectar , deleitar (both 13th cent.), Portuguese deleitar (14th cent.), Italian dilettare (a1294 as delettare ). For discussion of forms see delight n.
1.
a. transitive (reflexive). To take great pleasure in something, or in or by doing something; (without complement) to enjoy oneself.Formerly also with to-infinitive. Also with with the source of pleasure.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > emotion > pleasure > joy, gladness, or delight > be joyful or delighted [verb (reflexive)]
delight?c1225
joyc1260
?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 43 Eue bi heold oðe for boden appel & sech hine feier & feng to deliten hire iþe bi haldunge.
c1390 (a1376) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Vernon) (1867) A. i. l. 29 Lot..Dilytede him in drinke.
a1450 (?c1421) J. Lydgate Siege Thebes (Arun.) (1911) l. 2353 (MED) For I..gretly me delyte Euery morowe this gardyn to visyte.
1568 A. Scott Poems (1896) 41 Sum luvaris thame delytis till indyte Fair facound speich.
1634 T. Herbert Relation Some Yeares Trauaile 199 He has many Eliphants with whose Maiestie he greatly delights himselfe.
1742 W. Collins Persian Eclogues iii. 17 Fair happy Maid!.. With Love delight thee.
1828 I. D'Israeli Comm. Life Charles I I. v. 95 A life of pleasure—to delight himself and to be the delight of others.
1921 Clothing Trade Jrnl. July 177/1 I delighted myself in observing a rather pronounced cheerishness which was discernable in the actions and attitudes of all the employes.
2008 N.Z. Herald (Nexis) 3 May Sometimes I surprise and delight myself by doing something that scares me.
b. intransitive. To give great pleasure or enjoyment to people; to be a cause or source of delight.
ΚΠ
1340 Ayenbite (1866) 91 Þe lostuolle guodes of þe wordle guoþ in-to þe herte uor to deliti.
1605 J. Marston Dutch Courtezan p. i And if our pen in this seeme ouer slight, We striue not to instruct, but to delight.
1702 J. Dennis Comical Gallant Ep. Ded. sig. A6 Humour which always both instructs and delights, must be more proper for Comedy than Love, which sometimes only barely delights, and sometimes is so far from instructing, that it insensibly corrupts an Audience.
1809 Ann. Reg. 1807 (Otridge ed.) 574/2 Here Isaac Reed (than whom no visitor was more cordially welcomed by Charles Dilly) was sure to delight.
1904 L. T. Meade Love Triumphant v I mean to go to London..to meet my equals. I shall dazzle, I shall delight.
2016 Toronto Star (Nexis) 17 Sept. t9 This magical hideaway is steeped in rich family history and offers an abundance of natural beauty and outdoor activities that will inspire and delight.
c. To give great pleasure or enjoyment to (a person, the heart, the senses, etc.); to please (a person) very much.
(a) transitive. As an active verb. Also with anticipatory it as subject.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > emotion > pleasure > joy, gladness, or delight > quality of causing joy or delight > make joyful or delighted [verb (transitive)]
blissa1000
faina1300
joy1303
delighta1382
rejoya1393
forblissa1400
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rejoicec1425
blymc1440
delect1510
take?1553
gladden1558
oblectate1611
beglada1617
deliciate1633
delectate1647
to set (a person) cock-a-hoop1652
a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Bodl. 959) (1965) Prov. xxvii. 9 With oynement & dyuerse smellis deliteþ þe herte.
?c1400 (c1380) G. Chaucer tr. Boethius De Consol. Philos. (BL Add. 10340) (1868) ii. pr. iii. l. 950 It deliteþ me to comen now to þe singuler vphepyng of þi welefulnesse.
a1413 (c1385) G. Chaucer Troilus & Criseyde (Pierpont Morgan) (1882) iii. l. 1652 And ay þe more þat desir me biteth To loue here best, þe more it me delyteth.
a1450 (c1375) G. Chaucer Anelida & Arcite (Tanner 346) (1878) l. 266 I..was so bysy you to delite.
1535 Bp. J. Fisher Wks. (1876) 366 The loue of this game deliteth him so muche.
1615 A. Niccholes Disc. Marriage & Wiving vii. 21 But as to please woman hath much starched vp man from his slouenry, so to delight man..hath the woman thus increased in prides.
1709 A. Pope Spring in Poet. Misc.: 6th Pt. 727 If Windsor-Shades delight the matchless Maid.
1887 A. Jessopp Arcady viii. 235 A half-starved organ grinder comes and delights my heart by grinding for half an hour.
1932 Citizen (Gloucester) 28 Sept. 6/1 ‘It always delights me,’ he said, ‘when an old friend sends again.’
2019 Philadelphia Enquirer (Nexis) 16 Aug. f6 On Mother's Day when my kids asked me what I wanted, I said I wanted to have Japanese food in honor of my mother, which delighted them.
(b) transitive. In passive, chiefly with prepositional complement or to-infinitive.More common than the active verb.
ΚΠ
c1400 (?a1300) Kyng Alisaunder (Laud) (1952) 5793 So hij ben delited in þat art Þat wery ne ben hij neuere, cert.
1578 J. Bell tr. J. Foxe Serm. Christening Certaine Iew Pref. sig. C.v They doe beleeue nothing holy, good, or worthy to be embraced, but those plausible workes & obiects of nature, wherewith our eyes & senses are delyghted most.
1638 F. Junius Painting of Ancients 120 He is nothing neere so much delighted.
1711 J. Addison Spectator No. 69. ¶1 I am infinitely delighted in mixing with these several Ministers of Commerce.
1875 B. Jowett tr. Plato Dialogues (ed. 2) I. 476 I was quite delighted at this notion.
1938 Amer. Home Jan. 55/1 The young crowd adores such ‘special’ dances as yacht dances, etc., and will be delighted to come in yachting clothes, hayseed clothes, Gay Nineties, and so on.
1960 ‘Miss Read’ Fresh from Country (1962) xviii. 192 Miss Hobbs had trained them well, thought Anna, and was delighted that their effort was so well received.
2018 @AztecHotelUK 28 July in twitter.com (accessed 5 Nov. 2019) We're absolutely delighted with the result—well done everybody.
2.
a. intransitive. To take great pleasure in something or in doing something; to be very pleased to do something. Formerly also with †of.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > emotion > pleasure > joy, gladness, or delight > take joy or delight in [verb (transitive)]
delightc1230
to have joy of1297
joyc1330
enjoy1462
delect1510
to enjoy of?1521
lustc1540
revel1592
luxuriate1653
rollick1848
wallow1876
thrill1935
c1230 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Corpus Cambr.) (1962) 31 Eue biheold o þe forboden eappel..& feng to delitin iþe bihaldunge.
a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Bodl. 959) (1969) Isa. xi. 8 A soukande childe shal deliten of þe tete vp on þe hole of þe eddere, & in þe caue of þe cokatrice þat shal ben taken awei fro sok or wenyd [L. qui ablactatus fuerit]: he shal putten his hond.
c1430 (c1386) G. Chaucer Legend Good Women (Cambr. Gg.4.27) (1879) l. 415 He hath makid lewede folk to delyte To seruyn ȝow.
1535 J. ap Rice in W. B. Scoones Four Cent. Eng. Lett. (1881) 33 He delited moche in playing at dice and cardes.
1634 T. Herbert Relation Some Yeares Trauaile 16 They delight to dawbe and make their skin glister with grease.
1710 R. Steele & J. Addison Tatler No. 254. ⁋1 There are no Books which I more delight in than Travels.
1874 J. Morley On Compromise 31 We know the kind of man whom this system delights to honour.
1933 Broadway Brevities 10 Apr. 1/2 News reel editors..delight in showing numerous clips of navy and army maneuvers.
2015 @RachieJ40 16 Nov. in twitter.com (accessed 5 Nov. 2019) The trolls are already..delighting in the fact that this one has really upset us. Damage done and they knew it.
b. intransitive. To experience great pleasure or enjoyment; to be very pleased. Now literary and somewhat rare.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > emotion > pleasure > joy, gladness, or delight > be joyful or delighted [verb (intransitive)]
playc1225
delightc1330
to be joyeda1382
to jump over the moon1718
regale1814
c1330 (?a1300) Arthour & Merlin (Auch.) (1973) l. 9773 It [sc. his swerd] carf so wel men miȝt delite [rhyme smite].
a1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) vii. l. 4504 And sche..So ferforth made him to delite Thurgh lust.
1517 S. Hawes Pastime of Pleasure (1928) x. 37 Dyuers persones in sundry wyse delyght.
1610 R. Tofte tr. N. de Montreux Honours Acad. i. 79 But all creatures, are not framed of one kind of mettall, or condition, their passions and desires in louing, being contrarie and diuers, Nature greatly delighting, and making proofe of her mightines and power, by this diuersitie of humours.
1707 J. Lacy Warnings Eternal Spirit: 2nd Pt. lxii. 169 Oh, if you all knew how I delight, when I find you in your Prayers, without any thing of the World following you, into your Closet.
1846 Hogg's Weekly Instructor 12 Sept. 36/1 We delight when Milton, in some touching digression, speaks of the hour of midnight which he knew not by its darkness but by its silence.
1914 Evening News 21 Feb. 1/1 I have scanned the skies with a chart of stars in my hands, delighting when I can guess at Orion or Cassiopeia.
2017 @IvanTable 18 Apr. in twitter.com (accessed 5 Nov. 2019) I, a junior scribe, marvel and delight.
c. intransitive. Of a plant or animal: to flourish or thrive in a specific environment or specific conditions; to favour a specific environment or specific conditions. Also: to prefer to live or function in a specific environment (now rare).
ΘΚΠ
the world > plants > by growth or development > defined by good growth > grow well or flourish [verb (intransitive)] > grow well or flourish
growc725
thrivec1175
flourish1303
provec1330
encrec1420
delighta1475
prosper1535
addle1570
fortify1605
ramp1607
luxuriate1621
succeed1812
a1475 (?a1410) J. Lydgate Churl & Bird (Longleat) in E. P. Hammond Eng. Verse between Chaucer & Surrey (1927) 108 A Sowe dilith [read dilitith; c1475 Harl. delightethe, a1500 Lansd. delitith]..in foule draff hir pigges for to glade.
1577 B. Googe tr. C. Heresbach Foure Bks. Husbandry i. f. 33v The Beane delighteth in riche and wel dounged ground.
1697 W. Dampier New Voy. around World iii. 34 The Manatee delights to live in brackish Water.
1724 P. Miller Gardeners & Florists Dict. II. at Plum-Tree This Plum delights rather in the rising Sun, than one full South.
1849 J. F. W. Johnston Exper. Agric. 116 The hop delights in woollen rags.
1902 Ann. Rep. Columbus Hort. Soc. 126 The scientific men—professors—make the claim that the bacteria delight to do their work in the moist mulch.
2003 Gardening All-in-One for Dummies vi. iv. 554 These fat, fleshy bulbs [sc. wood hyacinths] delight in a woodland location.
3. transitive. To enjoy (something) greatly; to take great pleasure from (something). Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the world > physical sensation > physical sensibility > sensuous pleasure > [verb (transitive)] > enter into enjoyment of > enjoy or revel in
savoura1400
delighta1425
fain1483
to have, take felicity in or to1542
forage1593
batten1604
taste1605
to take out1609
to have a gust of1658
a1425 Medulla Gram. (Stonyhurst) f. 45 Oblecto, to delyte lykernes.
?c1450 tr. Bk. Knight of La Tour Landry (1906) 63 The whiche makithe hym to desire and delite foule plesaunce of the synne of lechery.
a1522 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid (1957) iv. vi. 136 Gyf the, of Cartage the burgh and towris swa..Delytis, [etc.].
a1641 J. Smyth Berkeley MSS (1883) II. 285 Shee often went with her husband part of those hunting journeys, delighting her crosbowe.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2020; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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