Definition of Delighting

1. a. Giving delight; gladdening.

Definition of Delighting

1. Verb. (present participle of delight) ¹

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Definition of Delighting

1. delight [v] - See also: delight

Lexicographical Neighbors of Delighting

delight in
delightable
delighted
delightedly
delightedness
delightednesses
delighter
delighters
delightest
delighteth
delightful
delightfull
delightfuller
delightfully
delightfulness
delighting
delightless
delightous
delights
delightsome
delightsomely
delightsomeness
delignify
delila
delimb
delimbed
delimbing
delimbs
delime
delimed

Literary usage of Delighting

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Friends Intelligencer by Friends Intelligencer Association (1875)
"EPC The lover of the "joy of delighting" will seek to create beauty and grace in his ... THE JOY OF Delighting. BY HH This good phrase is Theodore Parker's. ..."

2. Dictionary of National Biography by LESLIE. STEPHEN (1887)
"As to his manuscripts, see infra). comely countenance; a case which he did wipe and keep clean, delighting in good cloaths, well worne, and being wont to ..."

3. The Works by John Howe, Edmund Calamy (1835)
"They to That we may more distinctly open the import and meaning of delighting in God, it will be necessary that we treat, 1. Of the delectable object ; 2. ..."

4. Notes and Queries by Martim de Albuquerque (1861)
"... portrait of that remarkable man, who has just been delighting the people of Dublin with his eloquence, and surprising them by his energy and activity. ..."

5. Early English Poetry, Ballads, and Popular Literature of the Middle Ages by Percy Society (1840)
"... and appears to have been unknown to all our literary antiquaries. AGAINST FILTHY WRITING, AND SUCH LIKE Delighting. ..."

6. History of the Second War Between the United States of America and Great by Charles Jared Ingersoll (1852)
""She was," he said, "a mere boor, delighting in rabbits and dung." Nothing would induce her to leave her plantation, where she died of a cancer, in 1807; ..."

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