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Definition of Delighters
1. delighter [n] - See also: delighter
Lexicographical Neighbors of Delighters
Literary usage of Delighters
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Bookman (1897)
"delighters in these New Poems may feel that at last Mr. Thompson compels recognition
of his great powers. They will have " An Anthem of Earth," " The * New ..."
2. History of England from the Fall of Wolsey to the Death of Elizabeth by James Anthony Froude (1881)
"You have good councillors," he said, " provident, trusty, careful, no delighters
in war, nor prodigal •wasters of your treasure. ..."
3. The Metropolitan (1841)
"We must conclude by heartily recommending the work to the general reader, and we
are sure that the delighters in fiction will be enraptured with it, ..."
4. Restituta: Or, Titles, Extracts, and Characters of Old Books in English by Egerton Brydges (1815)
"To be enriched by violence is that too many on both sides wait for; such fire-brands
and delighters in war God there shews me in a vision ; wherein they ..."
5. The Face of the Deep: A Devotional Commentary on the Apocalypse by Christina Georgina Rossetti (1892)
"Lord Jesus, Who for love of us wast once made a little lower than Thine own
Angels; make us, I pray Thee, for love of Thee sacrificers of self, delighters ..."
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