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Enjoy vs Delice - What's the difference?

enjoy | delice |

As a verb enjoy

is to receive pleasure or satisfaction from something.

As a noun delice is

(obsolete) delight, pleasure, especially sensual pleasure.

enjoy

English

Verb

(en verb)
  • To receive pleasure or satisfaction from something
  • * {{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=July-August, author=(Henry Petroski)
  • , title= Geothermal Energy , volume=101, issue=4, magazine=(American Scientist) , passage=Energy has seldom been found where we need it when we want it. Ancient nomads, wishing to ward off the evening chill and enjoy a meal around a campfire, had to collect wood and then spend time and effort coaxing the heat of friction out from between sticks to kindle a flame. With more settled people, animals were harnessed to capstans or caged in treadmills to turn grist into meal.}}
  • To have the use or benefit of something.
  • * Bible, Numbers xxxvi. 8
  • that the children of Israel may enjoy every man the inheritance of his fathers
  • * 1988 , Harry G Frankfurt, The importance of what we care about: philosophical essays
  • This account fails to provide any basis for doubting that animals of subhuman species enjoy the freedom it defines.
  • To have sexual intercourse with.
  • (Milton)

    Usage notes

    * This is a catenative verb that takes the gerund (-ing) . See

    Derived terms

    * enjoyable * enjoyment * to enjoy oneself

    delice

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (obsolete) Delight, pleasure, especially sensual pleasure.
  • *1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , II.v:
  • *:he has pourd out his idle mind / In daintie delices , and lauish ioyes [...].
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