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Definition of Delightedness
1. [n -ES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Delightedness
Literary usage of Delightedness
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Renaissance Fancies and Studies by Vernon Lee (1896)
"sighing and dying, but of singing and dancing; and, proceeding thence, a fervour
of loving delightedness which is no longer of the man towards the woman, ..."
2. Knitting-work: A Web of Many Textures by Benjamin Penhallow Shillaber (1859)
"And let such incidents of transient joy, Through memory's aid, delightedness
impart; — The world cannot joy's secret seeds destroy, Sown by God's husbandmen ..."
3. Life with Trans-Siberian Savages by Benjamin Douglas Howard (1893)
"TRANS-SIBERIAN SAVAGES when my friend, seeing my delightedness, motioned me to
hand him one of our rifles. He took no aim, but simply fired. ..."
4. Selections from the Poetical Works of Mortimer Collins by Mortimer Collins (1886)
"For an inspired and ideal delightedness Are we to have scientific shortsightedness ?
Strengthen your telescope, Tyndall the blind ! You see King Atom, ..."
5. Manual and Household Arts by Benjamin Wiley Johnson, Ellen P. Dabney (1905)
"... livelier, more cheerful joyousness, delightedness moves gently gloomy meditations,
ponderings gentle, soft, calm, tranquil, tender, pleasant compassion, ..."
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