Noun

(en noun)

Joy; pleasure.

* Bible, Proverbs xviii. 2

A fool hath no delight in understanding.

* Shakespeare

Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.

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Something that gives great joy or pleasure.

* Milton:

Heaven's last, best gift, my ever new delight .

* (Greensleeves):

Greensleeves was all my joy / Greensleeves was my delight,

Noun

(en noun)

(countable) An act of religious worship.

* a. 1779 ,

We incessantly look forward, and endeavour, by prayers, adoration , and sacrifice, to appease those unknown powers, whom we find, by experience, so able to afflict and oppress us.

(uncountable) Admiration or esteem.

* 1890,

...if she can create the sense of beauty in people whose lives have been sordid and ugly...she is worthy of all your adoration', worthy of the ' adoration of the world.

(uncountable) The act of adoring; loving devotion or fascination.

* 1887,

He adored Sorais quite as earnestly as Sir Henry adored Nyleptha, and his adoration had not altogether prospered.