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Idiom

delight in

Meaning

To enjoy; to take pleasure in.

Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Examples

“They delight in spending time at the park.”

“The young children delight in splashing through the puddles whenever it rains outside.”

“The author seems to delight in using complex metaphors that challenge the reader to look deeper into the meaning of the text.”

Examples

simple

“They delight in spending time at the park.”

contextual

“The young children delight in splashing through the puddles whenever it rains outside.”

complex

“The author seems to delight in using complex metaphors that challenge the reader to look deeper into the meaning of the text.”

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