Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Delightful.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Delightful; imparting delight.
Wiktionary
- adj. delightful.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Very pleasing; delightful.
Examples
“After that, we spend a few hours talking about how Democrats, gentiles, and Tammy Wynette are all going to Hell and how we think the Lamanites gentiles call them Indians in the local church look much whiter and more "delightsome" this year, just as Our Prophet, Spencer W.”
“Many a pleasant, and many a profitable, hour have I spent in his "delightsome" library!!!]”
“For behold, they had hardened their hearts against him, that they had become like unto a flint; wherefore, as they were white, and exceedingly fair and delightsome, that they might not be enticing unto my people the Lord God did cause a skin of blackness to come upon them 2 Nephi 5:21.”
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“For behold, they had hardened their hearts against him, that they had become like unto a flint; wherefore, as they were white, and exceedingly fair and delightsome, that they might not be enticing unto my people the Lord God did cause a skin of blackness to come upon them.”
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“Now they want to take away whitesome delightsome JESUS from our schools.”
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“Quoth the Sultan, O Shahrazad, how excellent are these thy stories, and how delightsome!”
“Shahrazad awoke and signalled to her sister Dunyazad who sat up and said, “Allah upon thee, O my sister, recite to us some new story, delightsome and delectable, wherewith to while away the waking hours of our latter night.””
“Availability will become delightsome and easy, for in each person the soul will see the face of her Love.”
“‘Come, tell me now this also, godlike Homer: what think you in your heart is most delightsome to men?’”
“‘When mirth reigns throughout the town, and feasters about the house, sitting in order, listen to a minstrel; when the tables beside them are laden with bread and meat, and a wine-bearer draws sweet drink from the mixing-bowl and fills the cups: this I think in my heart to be most delightsome.’”
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