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delightsome, a.|dɪˈlaɪtsəm|
Also 6 delyt-, delite-.
[f. delight n. + -some.]
= delightful. (In 17th c. in frequent use: now only literary.)
1500–20Dunbar Poems lxiv. 2 Delytsum lyllie of everie lustynes. 1576Fleming Panopl. Epist. 409 Up and about the pleasaunt and delightsome hilles. 1601Weever Mirr. Mart. E j b, Daie is delightsome in respect of night. 1611Bible Mal. iii. 12 Ye shall be a delightsome land. 1697W. Dampier Voy. I. xvi. 454 The whole Town was very clean and delightsome. 1760Sterne Serm. x. (1773) 64 When he reflected upon this gay delightsome structure. 1844Mrs. Browning Vis. Poets, A mild delightsome melancholy. 1878Shairp in Contemp. Rev. 685 All who care to visit..that delightsome land [the Scottish Border]. 1892Field 19 Nov. 770/1 This delightsome, if quick-fleeting, season. |