(v. t.) A high degree of gratification of mind; a high- wrought state of pleasurable feeling; lively pleasure; extreme satisfaction; joy.
(v. t.) That which gives great pleasure or delight.
(v. t.) Licentious pleasure; lust.
(v. t.) To give delight to; to affect with great pleasure; to please highly; as, a beautiful landscape delights the eye; harmony delights the ear.
(v. i.) To have or take great delight or pleasure; to be greatly pleased or rejoiced; -- followed by an infinitive, or by in.
Example Sentences:
(1) Van Persie's knee injury meant that Mata could work in tandem with the delightfully nimble Kagawa, starting for the first time since 22 January.
(2) Some offer a range, depending on whether you think you're a bit of a buff, and know a pinot meunier from a pinot noir and what prestige cuvée actually means or you just want to see a bit of the process and have a nice glass of bubbly at the end of it, before moving on to the next place – touring a pretty corner of France getting slowly, and delightfully, fizzled.
(3) Speaking about the player, who scored crucial goals for England during qualification for the 2014 World Cup, Hodgson said: “Andros was unlucky to lose his place in the squad when he wasn’t getting a regular game and he’s gone to Newcastle, got a regular game, and done very well there.” Expressing his delight in being selected, Townsend tweeted: “Huge honour to be named in provisional England squad for the euros ... Will give my all over next few weeks to try to make final squad!” Hodgson also declared himself pleased to include Jordan Henderson, who returned to action for Liverpool in Sunday’s 1-1 draw with West Bromwich Albion having been out since early April with damaged knee ligaments.
(4) Going forward, I am delighted to take on the roles of both director and ambassador for the club.
(5) "I'm delighted we've been able to agree a deal with Sporting Lisbon and with Ricky and we look forward to welcoming him to the squad in July, once all of the paperwork gets sorted out."
(6) "Well…" His delightful press secretary, Lena, starts giggling as her boss tries to unknot himself from this contradiction.
(7) The other is a flamboyant showman who delights in peroxide mohicans and driving a variety of fast cars – most notably, perhaps, an army camouflage Bentley Continental GT.
(8) "I am delighted we have achieved this result," Key said.
(9) His institute has also calculated the centre of the continent of Europe to be in Lithuania, much to the delight of the village of Purnuškės.
(10) In fact, it was Howard who first introduced a teenage Martin Amis to the delights of reading when she gave him a copy of Pride and Prejudice .
(11) Afternoon Delights doesn't have anything approaching a mission statement – it's just two middle-aged men arsing about, frankly – but its gleeful anarchism can be riotously funny: witness the pair as free runners, declaring "war against the urban environment", or their magnificently coiffed Rock'n'Rollers, with the aid of subtitles, showing off their moves on the streets of Ashford, Kent.
(12) Jane Baxter's stuffed courgette flowers Stuffed courgette flowers Photograph: Rob White You can't get much more summery than courgette flowers – Jane Baxter's take on these light crispy fried delights (use a vegetarian parmesan-style cheese ).
(13) He seemed delighted to see everyone, he agreed with everything that was said to him, he was all benignity and good fellowship."
(14) And I’m delighted that Tony Hall has signalled that high-quality British drama is a major editorial priority for him, one he plans to invest in.
(15) Lord Roberts, a Liberal Democrat peer, told the Observer he was delighted Muazu was back in the UK but horrified that he had been forced to endure the attempted removal.
(16) How delightful that the anti-marriage group is known as Blag and opposed by Glad – which has more background : [The] ruling comes with respect to claims brought by six married same-sex couples and one widower from the states of Connecticut, New Hampshire and Vermont who were denied federal tax, social security, pension and family medical leave protections only because they are (or were) married to someone of the same sex.
(17) Mr Gates's publishers will have been delighted by the response he provoked.
(18) Luzhkov's many enemies, meanwhile, today expressed delight at the dismissal.
(19) Last week, I was delighted to meet four of these highly committed, talented recruits, together with their supervising consultant social workers from Newham, east London.
(20) The same-sex marriage bill became law, greeted with delight by the gay community and suspicious resentment by many Tories.
Enrapture
Definition:
(v. t.) To transport with pleasure; to delight beyond measure; to enravish.
Example Sentences:
(1) With a sign of the cross from the steps of his plane, Pope Francis concluded a historic visit to the US on Sunday night, taking off from Philadelphia and heading back to Rome after six days which enraptured – and challenged – his hosts.
(2) The wild chanting for the"Wolf" by enraptured staff was reportedly echoed on real-life Wall Street when Morgan Stanley's John Mack returned to the bank in 2005 after a stint at Credit Suisse First Boston.
(3) The country became enraptured by a circus around a painting of President Jacob Zuma with his genitals exposed.
(4) As the townsfolk listened enraptured, I half-expected Gerald Finley (sublime as Sachs) to urge his fellow guildsmen to “take back control”.
(5) Via nefarious means I've watched two episodes of Lilyhammer , BBC4's brand new "not very good thing with subtitles we're hoping to keep The Killing audience enraptured with", where a New York mob boss (Steven Van Zandt) goes into hiding in Norway with hilarious results.
(6) Liverpool supporters were not the only ones enraptured by his performance at Anfield.
(7) Updated at 9.29am BST 9.01am BST I feel like slipping Steve Hewlett a twenty and thanking him for a good half hour on the couch for this: "Home advantage, a soft draw, systematic fouling and indulgence by the officials; this Brazil squad has been an unlovable spoilt brat of a team and that's why you, I and many others enraptured by Brazilian teams of the past have spent the past half week confusingly comfortable in our schadenfreude.
(8) You know what God loves most?” he asked the crowd, hushed and enraptured on a moonlit night.
(9) I also am enraptured by the shield function (3:58), although I question the dedication of the guy with the stick.
(10) Nor was he enraptured by "the small change of Oxford evenings", and he was startled by the erratic inebriety of such celebrated Oxonians as Richard Cobb, although he shared Cobb's disdain for the uncritical Francophilia of so many of their colleagues.
(11) When I was younger, it was this second half that enraptured me: the rush of the hunt (on both sides); the thrill of not knowing who would and wouldn't survive; and the pain of how much this affected the characters.
(12) A few minutes later, the unheralded long jumper from Milton Keynes was preparing his final leap and taking the acclaim of the enraptured crowd as Farah was easing through the gears in a 10,000m final that would end with the Somalia-born, London-raised distance runner winning the first British gold in over a century.
(13) While most children his age would have wept from boredom, Salazar said he felt enraptured, as though he needed to be a part of what was going on.
(14) She got behind her own music so had to improvise, not that the enraptured audience holding their breath in the stands would have known.
(15) 2008 Condoleezza Rice, the US secretary of state, meets Gaddafi and apparently enraptures the Libyan leader: an album of photographs of her will be later found in his Tripoli compound after the regime's fall in 2011.
(16) According to Rodgers, what enraptures listeners – and you can hear it, he says, on the Daft Punk album – is disco's "complex simplicity".
(17) Cameron’s decision to participate in 2010 has reached mythical status in some Tory circles, allowing the fresh-faced upstart Nick Clegg to enrapture those previously drawn to Tory modernisation.
(18) Then we pay for the costs they kindly dump on us: the floods, the extra water purification necessitated by the pollution they cause, the loss of so many precious and beautiful places, the decline of wildlife that enchants and enraptures.