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delightsomeness

Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The quality of giving delight; charmfulness.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun The state of being delightsome.

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Examples

  • These young members of the Church are changing to whiteness and to delightsomeness.

    Archive 2005-01-23 2005

  • These young members of the Church are changing to whiteness and to delightsomeness.

    White and delightsome 2005

  • These young members of the Church are changing to whiteness and to delightsomeness.

    01/23/2005 - 01/30/2005 2005

  • Each bay and inlet and cove differed in delightsomeness.

    Tropic Days 2003

  • Lovable as is the open sea when the spray drenches the scanty clothing of the steersman and rains upon his lips salty salutation, yet is there rare delightsomeness in reverse of the wet frolic.

    Tropic Days 2003

  • "The reason," he adds, "why the intercourse then is more delightful and blessed is, that when conjugial love becomes of the spirit, it becomes more interior and pure, and consequently more perceptible; and every delightsomeness grows according to the perception, and grows even until its blessedness is discernible in its delightsomeness." .171 Such love, however, he says, is rarely to be found on earth.

    Bygone Beliefs 1969

  • She was thinking of the days when she walked with her hero out of delightsomeness and ease into danger and anxiety, all for the nation's succor, in the nation's time of need.

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 107, September, 1866 Various

  • Moreover, the favour of victory would be speedily his, if he could first lay hands upon a food of extraordinary delightsomeness which had been devised to increase the strength of Balder.

    The Danish History, Books I-IX Grammaticus Saxo

  • The delightsomeness of the work of art and its self-sufficient freedom, standing in contrast with the drab or difficult realities of nature and personal striving, serve also to make of beauty a consoler and healer.

    The Principles of Aesthetics Dewitt H. Parker

  • The opposite of loathsomeness is delightsomeness; and the opposite of wretchedness is happiness.

    Samuel Rutherford Whyte, Alexander 1894

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