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- noun uncountable The
condition orfeeling oflacking delight ;unhappiness ordispleasure . - noun countable Something
unpleasant ordispleasing .
Etymologies
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Examples
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I have also heard the dulcet chimings of many village church bells in various parts of the land, and I have listened with undelight to the unmusical tones of Big Ben of Westminster, but so far as mellow tone is concerned, I rarely hear any ordinary church bells that are more dulcet and harmonious than the bells of St. Martin's, Birmingham.
A Tale of One City: the New Birmingham Papers Reprinted from the "Midland Counties Herald" Thomas Anderton 1869
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Farewelling friend is sorrow sorest sore * Parting from lover's merest undelight.
Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855
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I can’t read his poems, but I can remember reading them with amazed undelight whenever I read his prose.
THE ANTHOLOGIST Nicholson Baker 2009
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I can’t read his poems, but I can remember reading them with amazed undelight whenever I read his prose.
THE ANTHOLOGIST Nicholson Baker 2009
yarb commented on the word undelight
And since he cannot spend and use aright
The little time here given him in trust,
But wasteth it in weary undelight
Of foolish toil and trouble, strife and lust,
He naturally claimeth to inherit
The everlasting Future, that his merit
May have full scope; as surely is most just.
- James Thomson, The City of Dreadful Night, XIII. 22-28
March 25, 2009