A feeling of extreme pleasure or satisfaction.
Act of receiving pleasure from something.
1 In practice Donald Trump is laying out a banquet for their delectation .
2 Whose compliments will carry farther, in the way of delectation , think you?
3 These are the words I read for the delectation of the dissolute quartette:
4 Therefore the sin of morose delectation is not in the reason.
5 Therefore neither is the consent to the delectation a mortal sin.
6 He bethought himself of writing a note to Biassou, detailing the evening's delectation .
7 Mrs M'Swat killed a fowl and stewed it for my delectation .
8 I was at the piano, singing Jacobite melodies for Salemina's delectation .
9 It's like a delectation that you can get all by yourself.
10 The mere thought makes the bourgeoisie shiver with trepidation; the would-be revolutionaries with delectation .
11 First, take a stroll, admiring the some 900 listed buildings available for your delectation .
12 There seemed every promise of an unrehearsed entertainment for the delectation of his guests.
13 When I offered nothing for her delectation , she finally spoke.
14 They originated all that tomfoolery for their own individual delectation .
15 But delectation without deed is not a mortal sin, but only a venial sin.
16 To spin yarns for Charley's delectation would have been absurd.
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