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  • adjective Giving delight; gladdening.

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  • verb Present participle of delight.

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Examples

  • Redfern is certainly a writer per se, but The Music of the Spheres is her premiere work and does little in delighting the reader.

    2010 April 16 « The BookBanter Blog 2010

  • "delighting," is one of the series, and stands in the same category as

    Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible 1871

  • Interested mainly in delighting select gatherings of friends and travelers, Houckgeest kept the collection largely outside of the public’s view.

    The Romance of China: Excursions to China in U.S. Culture: 1776-1876 2005

  • If I am reading him correctly, Douglas Wilson mistakenly mixes the concept of "rebuke" with the idea of delighting in the destruction of the rebuked (or hoping for it), not understanding that the rebuke God gives is a rebuke not prompted by duty (so that one can give a spiritual version of, "I told you so," later), but given because of love.

    adventures in mercy SarahSarah 2009

  • At what point did he see that the two important women in the novel, Amy and the "delighting" young writer Jamie Logan — the object of Zuckerman's dead-end desire — have usefully assonant names?

    The Rake’s Progress Giving Up The Ghost 2007

  • But since the apostle not only takes this "delighting" from the other part of him, but likewise attributes it to the power of warring against that inward man and overcoming him, it is evident that the restriction has been added on this account -- to shew that, in the man who is now the subject of discussion, "the inward man" has not the dominion, but is, in fact, the inferior.

    The Works of James Arminius, Vol. 2 1560-1609 1956

  • We cannot suppose that Shakspeare used epithets so weakening as "delighting" or

    Notes and Queries, Number 38, July 20, 1850 Various

  • "delighting" to the man according to one part of him, and to take it away according to the other part of him.

    The Works of James Arminius, Vol. 2 1560-1609 1956

  • Asked what his company meant by "delighting" customers, Johnson said, "Our thought is that if a customer is merely satisfied, we haven't done our job.

    PRWeb - Daily News Feed 2010

  • Asked what his company meant by "delighting" customers, Johnson said, "Our thought is that if a customer is merely satisfied, we haven't done our job.

    PRWeb - Daily News Feed 2010

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