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- verb archaic Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
delight .
Etymologies
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Examples
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The steps of a good man are ordered by the LORD: and he delighteth in his way.
Fret Not 2009
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You always share the beauties of your garden, stationary and aerial – in ways that delighteth us all.
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The man whom it delighteth the people to honor, keeps, and for many years past kept, as his concubine, one of his own slaves.
Archive 2009-01-01 Elizabeth Kerri Mahon 2009
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In one moment he imagined himself displaying the royal banner from the reconquered Castle of Edinburgh, detaching assistance to a monarch whose crown depended upon his success, and receiving in requital all the advantages and preferments which could be heaped upon him whom a king delighteth to honour.
A Legend of Montrose 2008
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There can be no greater or more perilous vocation than that which was given her whom the Church delighteth to call the Mother of God; and with such a vocation was certainly joined, in all justice, gifts of nature and of grace greater and more indescribable than have come to any other child of Adam.
National Patronal Festival Fr Timothy Matkin 2008
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All precepts other than these are false, and thou knowest that Allah created everything and delighteth only in Good and commandeth each member of the body to do that which He hath made on it incumbent, for that
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A significant flaw in Clayton's theory is that "Yellow Tom" seems to have been a fabrication of one of Jefferson's political enemies, James T. Callendar, who wrote in the Richmond Recorder in 1802 that It is well known that the man whom it delighteth the people to honor, keeps and for many years has kept, as his concubine, one of his slaves.
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Thou favourest whom Thou wilt of Thy servants, whereby the owner of this place abideth in all joyance of life and delighteth himself with pleasant scents and delicious meats and exquisite wines of all kinds.
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The country enclosed I praise; the other delighteth not me, for nothing of wealth it doth raise, &c.
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Bodily sickness is for his soul's health, periisset nisi periisset, had he not been visited, he had utterly perished; for [853] the Lord correcteth him whom he loveth, even as a father doth his child in whom he delighteth.
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