Delight
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Delight refers to joy and pleasure.
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Etymology
A wrong spelling, in imitation of words like light, might, etc.; the analogical modern spelling would be delite; < Middle English deliten < Old French deleiter, deliter < Latin delectare (“to delight, please”), frequentative of delicere (“to allure”); see delicate.
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Namesakes
- "Rapper's Delight" a rap single by Sugarhill Gang
- Turkish delight
- The Garden of Earthly Delights, a painting by Bosch
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See also
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