Definition of Delight

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Delight

A high degree of gratification of mind; a high- wrought state of pleasurable feeling; lively pleasure; extreme satisfaction; joy.

That which gives great pleasure or delight.

Licentious pleasure; lust.

To give delight to; to affect with great pleasure; to please highly; as, a beautiful landscape delights the eye; harmony delights the ear.

To have or take great delight or pleasure; to be greatly pleased or rejoiced; -- followed by an infinitive, or by in.

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Delight Quotations

When you are joyous, look deep into your heart and you shall find it is only that which has given you sorrow that is giving you joy. When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.
Kahlil Gibran

When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.
Kahlil Gibran

Beauty is the bait which with delight allures man to enlarge his kind.
Socrates

Love is like a beautiful flower which I may not touch, but whose fragrance makes the garden a place of delight just the same.
Helen Keller

A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom.
Robert Frost

The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom... in a clarification of life - not necessarily a great clarification, such as sects and cults are founded on, but in a momentary stay against confusion.
Robert Frost

We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children that makes the heart too big for the body.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

How could man rejoice in victory and delight in the slaughter of men?
Lao Tzu

The universe must exist for the self-expression of God and the delight of God.
Ernest Holmes

To look almost pretty is an acquisition of higher delight to a girl who has been looking plain for the first fifteen years of her life than a beauty from her cradle can ever receive.
Jane Austen

Delight Translations

delight in Dutch is verrukken, in verrukking brengen
delight in Finnish is hurmata
delight in Italian is uzzolo
delight in Latin is gaudium, laetifico letifico, delectatio, laetitia
delight in Norwegian is glede
delight in Portuguese is prazer
delight in Spanish is delicia, deleitar

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