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taken delight in

taken delight in is the past participle of take delight in.

Meaning of take delight in

Verb

take delight in (third-person singular simple present takes delight in, present participle taking delight in, simple past took delight in, past participle taken delight in)

  1. (idiomatic) To enjoy.

Questions about taken delight in

What is taken delight in the past participle of?
Taken delight in is the past participle of take delight in.

Words near taken delight in in the dictionary

  1. taken command
  2. taken control
  3. taken cover
  4. taken credit
  5. taken credit for
  6. taken delight in
  7. taken delivery
  8. taken down
  9. taken down a notch
  10. taken down a peg
  11. taken easy

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Adapted from Wiktionary: taken delight in (page history and authors); take delight in (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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