delighting

Verb

delight (third-person singular simple present delights, present participle delighting, simple past and past participle delighted)

1. To give delight to; to affect with great pleasure; to please highly.
   • Delight our souls with talk of knightly deeds.1842, Tennyson, Le Morte d’Arthur

   Synonyms:

   cheer up, perk up, beatify, enrapture, begladden, blissen, bright, cheer, fetch, cherish

2. (intransitive) To have or take great pleasure.
   • A ſclaunderous tunge, a tunge of a ſkolde,
     Worketh more miſchiefe than can be tolde;
     That, if I wiſt not to be controlde,
     Yet ſomwhat to ſay I dare well be bolde,c. 1515–1516, published 1568, John Skelton, Againſt venemous tongues enpoyſoned with ſclaunder and falſe detractions &c.

   Synonyms:

   blithen, happy

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