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单词 to have delight
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to have (a) delight

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P1. to have (a) delight. Also with modifying adjective.
a. To take pleasure in something, or in doing something.
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c1225 (?c1200) Hali Meiðhad (Bodl.) (1940) l. 75 & habbeð mare delit þrin þen ei oðer habbe i licunge of þe worlt.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 23349 Bot suld þai haf a gret delite, To se þam setlid in þair site.
a1569 A. Kingsmill Conf. containing Conflict with Satan sig. Dv in Most Excellent & Comfortable Treat. (1577) When he hath a delite in that yt he doeth.
1742 W. Warburton Crit. & Philos. Comm. Pope's Ess. on Man 144 His having no Delight in any thing uncommunicated or uncommunicable.
1824 Cobbett's Weekly Reg. 4 Sept. 724 Among the many symptoms of dawning prosperity to Ireland, which he had delight in observing, there was none which could have greater influence on the feelings of those who took any interest in the condition of that unhappy country, than the fact that they had with them the best wishes of a gracious Sovereign.
1905 Country Life in Amer. Apr. 652/2 The butterfly collector must have..a delight in the outdoor chase.
2015 Taranaki (N.Z.) Daily News (Nexis) 16 Jan. 3 I've had the greatest delight in telling everyone I'm not dead.
b. To have a desire to do something; to wish to do. Obsolete.
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1477 Earl Rivers tr. Dictes or Sayengis Philosophhres (Caxton) (1877) lf. 1 I had delyte & axed to rede somme good historye.
1488 (c1478) Hary Actis & Deidis Schir William Wallace (Adv.) (1968–9) ix. l. 8 The nobill king..Had gret delyte this Wallace for to se.
1561 T. Hoby tr. B. Castiglione Courtyer iii. sig. kk.iiiv All women haue a delite to be suide to in loue, althoughe they were mynded to denye the suite.
1741 J. Seacome Memoirs 195 They beare Sir John Stanley Malice and Spyte But to Reincounter with him none had Delight.
P2. to take delight: to take pleasure in something, or in doing something. Also with to-infinitive. Also with modifying adjective.
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1484 W. Caxton tr. G. de la Tour-Landry Bk. Knight of Tower (1971) xliiii. 67 The delite that men take in the sauoure and etyng of them.
1573 G. Gascoigne Hundreth Sundrie Flowres 315 Mine eyes, take no delight to raunge, About the gleames, which on your face do growe.
1609 W. Shakespeare Sonnets xxxvii. sig. C4v As a decrepit father takes delight, To see his actiue childe do deeds of youth. View more context for this quotation
1726 W. R. Chetwood Voy. & Adventures Capt. R. Boyle 28 Gardening was what I always took delight in.
1820 J. Clare Poems Rural Life (ed. 3) 125 Who takes delight To shool her knitting out at night.
1875 B. Jowett in tr. Plato Dialogues (ed. 2) III. 184 The branch of knowledge..in which he takes the greatest delight.
2019 W. Austral. (Perth) (Nexis) 31 July 13 The fascination with Lego starts with Duplo-style bricks and toddlers taking great delight in knocking down any tower mum or dad may build.
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