α. late Middle English delitabilite, late Middle English delytablete, late Middle English dilatabilte, late Middle English diletabilte.
β. 1800s 2000s– delightability.
单词 | delightability |
释义 | delightabilityn.α. late Middle English delitabilite, late Middle English delytablete, late Middle English dilatabilte, late Middle English diletabilte. β. 1800s 2000s– delightability. rare after Middle English. The quality or fact of being delightful; delightfulness. Formerly also: †joy, delight (obsolete).Apparently not recorded between the 15th and 19th centuries. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > pleasure > joy, gladness, or delight > quality of causing joy or delight > [noun] delighta1250 deliciositya1398 joya1400 delightabilityc1440 deliciousnessa1450 delectablenessc1487 delicity?c1500 delectability1565 delightsomenessa1568 delightfulness1570 joyance1847 c1440 (a1396) W. Hilton Scale of Perfection (Thornton) in G. G. Perry Eng. Prose Treat. (1921) 45 He þat can noghte lufe þis blyssed name Ihesu, ne fynd ne fele in it gastely Ioye and delitabilite..he sall be aliene. a1450 (?1348) R. Rolle Form of Living (Cambr.) in Eng. Writings (1931) 115 Þe sevent es, delitabilite [c1475 Rawl. C.285 delytablete] in sawle when he es in tribulacion. a1500 (c1340) R. Rolle Psalter (Univ. Oxf. 64) (1884) lxvii. §36. 237 Syngis til god ihu crist in diletabilte of luf. 1875 New Q. Mag. July 484 There is something exceedingly stupid in our common practice of paying superabundant attention to all the external factors of happiness.., and all the time forgetting that there must always be an internal factor of delightability to produce the desired result. 2011 @henrik 18 Oct. in twitter.com (accessed 16 Jan. 2020) Realizing I'm less into usability as such and more into delightability, which is the next step. Make it not suck, then make it fun. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2020; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.c1440 |
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