delight

Definitions

1. 1.2. That which gives great pleasure or delight. Heaven's last, best gift, my ever new delight. Milton.
2. 2.Licentious pleasure; lust. [Obs.] Chaucer.
3. 3.To give delight to; to affect with great pleasure; to please highly; as, a beautiful landscape delights the eye; harmony delights the ear. Inventions to delight the taste. Shak. Delight our souls with talk of knightly deeds. Tennyson.
4. 4.To have or take great delight or pleasure; to be greatly pleased or rejoiced; -- followed by an infinitive, or by in. Love delights in praises. Shak. I delight to do thy will, O my God. Ps. xl. 8.

Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).

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• What is 2. That which gives great pleasure or delight. Heaven's last, best gift, my ever new delight. Milton called?
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