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▪ I. delighting, vbl. n.|dɪˈlaɪtɪŋ|
[-ing1.]
The action of the verb delight; delectation.
a1325Prose Psalter xv. 11 Delitynges ben in þy riȝt honde vnto þe ende. 1500–20Dunbar Poems (1893) 311/34 Bettir war leif my paper quhyte, And tak me to vthir delyting. 1581Sidney Apol. Poetrie (Arb.) 37 Beautifying it both for further teaching, and more delighting. 1640Sir R. Baker in Spurgeon Treas. Dav. Ps. lxxxiv. 2 His Tabernacles..must needs work in me an infinite delighting.
▪ II. deˈlighting, ppl. a.
[-ing2.]
That delights (in the different senses of the verb).
1563Form of Medit. in Liturg. Serv. Q. Eliz. (1847) 504 With wines, spices, silks, and other vain costly delighting things. 1599T. M[oufet] Silkwormes 20 Full of delighting change, and learning greate. 1814Forgery lv. ii. Let me..praise Heaven for the delighting pledge.
Hence deˈlightingly adv.
1602Carew Cornwall 132 b, A walk which..my selfe haue oftentimes delightingly seene. 1660Jer. Taylor Duct. Dubit. iv. i. (R.), Though he did not consent clearly and delightingly to Seguiri's death. 1836New Monthly Mag. XLVI. 425 Readers who delightingly believe, that [etc.]. |