[Dictionary Definition]: Delect (v.; rare): to delight or take pleasure in something; also, to be a source of pleasure or delight; in later use also with object (reflexive): to gratify oneself. ~ (Oxford English Dictionary).

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• delightment (n.): 1. the state or condition of delighting; 2. (a.) an expression or state of delight; (b.) a cause or occasion of delight; [e.g.]: “And in his delightment and excitement, Alobar had let his tea grow cold, so the shaman warmed his cup”. ~ (page 51, “Jitterbug Perfume: A Novel”, by Tom Robbins; 1984); (v.): delight, delights, delighting, delighted. [from Middle English delit, from Old French, ‘a pleasure’, from delitier, ‘to please’, ‘charm’, from Latin dēlectāre, ‘to delight’, from dēlicere, ‘to allure’ (from dē-, intensive prefix + lactāre, frequentative of lacere, ‘to entice’) + -ment, from Latin -mentum, nounal suffix indicating a means, instrument, or agent of an action or process]. ~ (Online Neoteric Dictionary).
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• delightment (n.): 1. pure pleasure; 2. intense thrill of excitement; 3. a self-pleasing state of mind; [e.g.]: “To her delightment, he said yes to her question”. (uploaded by Wolfenstineus; March 17, 2004). ~ (Online Urban Dictionary).
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Random Literary Samples.
• “‘That I will do with the greatest of *delightment*’, said the elder”. [emphasis added]. ~ (page 157, The Man Who Used the Universe”, by Alan Dean Foster Foster; 1946-1983).
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• “‘With the greatest of *delightment*, Fourth Father’, echoed Naras Sharaf as he ended the clandestine transmission”. [emphasis added]. ~ (page 157, “The Man Who Used the Universe”, by Alan Dean Foster Foster; 1946-1983).
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• “This is by far the best thing I have heard on here yet. I will unquestionably track the author down and ransack his other works for further *delightment*. Kudos!” [emphasis added]. ~ (from A. Derksen, online comment; October 22, 2008, “PodCastle, PC030: Grand Guignol”, by Andy Duncan; read by Frank Key).
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• “The whole concept of the story is very intriguing and interesting and the crescendo of the album offers the listeners pure moments of true musical *delightment* Excellent work!”. [emphasis added]. ~ (from a review of “A Gentleman’s Hurricane” (from Mind’s Eye), by Ovidiu; Jan 04, 2010).
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• delight (v.): I. (trans.v.): to affect with great pleasure or rapture; please highly; give or afford a high degree of satisfaction or enjoyment to; as, ‘a beautiful landscape delights the eye’; ‘harmony delights the ear’; ‘poetry delights the mind’; [e.g.]: “I will delight myself in thy statutes”. (Psalm cxix. 16); “To me, what is this quintessence of dust? Man delights not me, no, nor woman either”. (William Shakespeare, “Hamlet”, ii, 2); II. (intr.v.): to have or take great; pleasure; be greatly pleased or rejoiced: followed by an infinitive or by in; [e.g.]: “The squyer delited nothinge ther-ynne whan that he smote his maister, but he wiste not fro whens this corage to hym come”. (Merlin; E. E. T. S., iii. 434); “I delight to do thy will, O my God: yea, thy law is within my heart”. (Psalm xl. 8); “The labour we delight in physics pain”. (William Shakespeare, “Macbeth”, ii. 3). [a wrong spelling, in imitation of words like light, might, etc.; the analogical modern spelling would be delite; from Middle English deliten, delyten, from Old French deleiter, deliter = Provinçal delectar = Spanish deleitar, delectar = Portuguese deleitar = Italian delettare, dilettare, from Latin delectare, ‘delight’, ‘please’, freqentive of delicere, ‘allure’; see delicate, delectable, delicious]. ~ (Century Dictionary and Cyclopaedia).
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• delight (n.): 1. a high degree of pleasure or satisfaction; joy; rapture; [e.g.]: “His delight is in the law of the Lord”. (Psalm i. 2); “Thus came I into England with great joy and hearts delight, both to my selfe and all my acquaintance”. (Edward Webbe, “Travels”; ed. Edward Arber, p. 31); “The ancients and our own Elizabethans, ere spiritual megrims had become fashionable, perhaps made more out of life by taking a frank delight in its action and passion”. (James Lowell, “Among my Books”, 2d sermon, p, 249); 2. that which gives great pleasure; that which affords a high degree of satisfaction or enjoyment; [e.g.]: “But, man, what doste thou with alle this? | Thowe doest the delytys of the devylle”. (Political Poems, etc.; ed. Furnivall, p. 172); “Come, sisters, cheer we up his sprites, | And show the best of our delights”. (William Shakespeare, Macbeth, iv. 1); “Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise,... | To scorn delights, and live laborious days”. (John Milton, “Lycidas”, 1. 72); 3. licentious pleasure; lust (Geoffery Chaucer); (synonyms): 1. joy, pleasure, etc. (see gladness), gratification, rapture, transport, ecstasy, delectation. [a wrong spelling (see the verb); earlier delite; from Middle English delite, delit, delyt, from Old French deleit, delit = Provinçal delieg, deliet = Spanish, Portuguese deleite = Italian diletto, ‘delight’; from the verb]. ~ (Century Dictionary and Cyclopaedia).
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• delighted (part. adj.; in the quotation from Shakspere the meaning of the word is doubtful): 1. greatly pleased; joyous; joyful; [e.g.]: “About the keel delighted dolphins play”. (Edmund Waller, “His Majesty’s Escape”); “Ay, but to die, and go we know not where, | To lie in cold obstruction, and to rot; | This sensible warm motion to become | A kneaded clod; and the delighted spirit | To bathe in fiery floods, or to reside | In thrilling regions of thick-ribbed ice”. (William Shakespeare, “Measure for Measure”, iii. 1); “But thou, O Hope, with eyes so fair—| What was thy delighted measure?” (William Collins, “The Passions”); 2.† delightful; delighted-in; [e.g.]: “If virtue no delighted beauty lack, | Your son-in-law is far more white than black”. (William Shakespeare, “Othello”, i. 3); “Whom hest I love I cross; to make my gift, | The more delay’d, deliyhted”. (William Shakespeare, “Cymbeline”, v. 4). [pp. of delight, verb]. ~ (Century Dictionary and Cyclopaedia).
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• delightedly (adv.): in a delighted manner; with delight; [e.g.]: “Delightedly dwells he ’mong fays and talismans, | And spirits; and delightedly believes | Divinities, being himself divine”. (Samuel Taylor Coleridge, tr. of Schiller’s “Death of Walleustein”). ~ (Century Dictionary and Cyclopaedia).
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• delighter (n.; rare): one who takes delight; [e.g.]: “Ill-humoured, or a delighter in telling bad stories”. (Isaac Barrow, “Sermons”, I. 250). ~ (Century Dictionary and Cyclopaedia).
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• delightful (adj.): highly pleasling; affording great pleasure and satisfaction: as, ‘a delightful thought’; ‘a delightful prospect’; [e.g.]: “The house is delightful—the very perfection of the old Elizabethan style”. (Lord Macaulay’s “Life and Letters”, I. 191); “After all, to be delightful is to be classic, and the chaotic never pleases long”. (James Russell Lowell, “Among my Books”, 1st sermon, p. 204); (synonyms): delicious, delightful (see delicious); charming, exquisite, enchanting, rapturous, ravishing. [from delight + -ful¹]. ~ (Century Dictionary and Cyclopaedia).
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• delightfully (adv.): 1. in a delightful manner; in a manner to afford great pleasure; charmingly; [e.g.]: “How can you more profitably or more delightfully employ yore Sunday leisure than in the performance of such duties as these?” (Bishop Porteous, “Works”, I. ix); 2.† with delight; delightedly; [e.g.]: “O voice once heard | Delightfully, Increase and Multiply; | Now death to hear!” (John Milton, “Paradise Lost”, x. 730). ~ (Century Dictionary and Cyclopaedia).
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• delightfulness (n.): 1. the quality of being delightful, or of affording great pleasure: as, ‘the delightfulness of a prospect or of scenery’; ‘the delightfulness of leisure’; [e.g.]: “Because it [deportment] is a nurse of peace and greatly contributes to the delightfulness of society, [it] hath been always much commended”. (Dr. Isaac Barrow, “Sermons”, I. xxix); 2† the state of being delighted; great pleasure; delight; [e.g.]: “But our desires’ tyrannical extortion | Doth force us there to set our chief delightfulness | Where but a baiting place is all our portion”. (Sir Philip Sidney, “The Complete Works”). ~ (Century Dictionary and Cyclopaedia).
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• delightingly (adv.): 1. in a delighting manner; so as to give delight; 2.† with delight; cheerfully; cordially; [e.g.]: “He did not consent clearly and delightingly to Sequiri’s death”. (Jeremy Taylor, “Ductor Dubitantium”). ~ (Century Dictionary and Cyclopaedia).
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• delightless (adj.): affording no pleasure or delight; cheerless; [e.g.]: “Winter oft at eve resumes the breeze, | Chills the pale moon, and bids his driving sleets | Deform the day delightless”. (James Thomson, “The Four Seasons: Spring”). [from delight + -less]. ~ (Century Dictionary and Cyclopaedia).
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• delightsome (adj.): delightful; imparting delight; [e.g.]: “Then deck thee with thy loose, delightsome robes, | And on thy wings bring delicate perfumes”. (George Peele, “The Love of King David and Fair Bethsabe”, 1594); “The Kingdom of Tonquin is in general healthy enough, especially in the dry season, when also it is very delightsome”. (William Dampier, “Dampier’s Voyages”, II. i. 31). [from delight + -some]. ~ (Century Dictionary and Cyclopaedia).
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• delightsomely (adv.): in a delightful manner; in a way to give or receive delight; [e.g.]: “I have not lived my life delightsomely”. (Alfred, Lord Tennyson, “Balin and Balan”). ~ (Century Dictionary and Cyclopaedia).
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• delightsomeness (n.): the quality of giving delight; charmfulness; [e.g.]: “The delightsomeness of our dwellings shall not be envied”. (Rev. Charles Wheatly, “Schools of the Prophets”, 1721, “Sermon at Oxford”, p. 38). ~ (Century Dictionary and Cyclopaedia).
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• marvelment (n.; pl. marvelments): a source or cause for wonder. [etymology: marvel, from Middle English merveile, mervayle, ‘something causing astonishment, miracle’ (from Latin mīrābilia, noun derivative from neuter plural of mīrābilis, ‘causing wonder, remarkable’, from mīrārī, ‘to be surprised, look with wonder at’ + -bilis, ‘capable of acting or being acted upon’) + -ment, from Latin -mentum; akin to Latin -men, ‘suffix denoting concrete result’]. ~ (Merriam-Webster Dictionary).
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• marvelment (n.): 1. the state of marvelling; amazement; 2. something causing such a state; a marvel. [from marvel +‎ -ment]. ~ (Wiktionary English Dictionary).
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Random Literary Samples.
• “Hugh Laurie is the epitome of class and style, not to mention a brilliant actor. Even with all those *marvelment* characteristics, he’s able to maintain his integrity, modesty and priceless sense of humor! I can’t think of anyone who is deserving of an Emmy more than he!”. [emphasis added]. ~ (online comment by Aeritrish, May 18, 2007, in “Why Hugh Laurie Is the Coolest Man On Earth”, by Ray Richmond; May 14, 2007, Past Deadline; The Hollywood Reporter).
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• “His book is yet another of those all-purpose guides to the new industry of motion pictures, a blend of potted history, social history, technical explanation and *marvelment* at the rise of this extraordinary business and the huge sums that it was starting to earn”. [emphasis added]. ~ (from “Motography”, by urbanora, Feb 09, 2010, The Bioscope).
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• “I get a chill when I think about where we were technologically in 1995. Not a shiver of *marvelment* over the progress we made to reach that era, but an incapacitating shudder to think of the Hell on Earth we had to endure to go online in the mid-1990s. The dial-up screeches, the disconnections should someone pick up a phone, the endless wait-time to download. Let’s never go back. Promise me we’ll never go back”. [emphasis added]. ~ (from “AOL Spent $300 Million Just On Promotional Discs In The 1990s”, by Mike Schuster; Dec 28, 2010, The Daily Feed, Minyanville).
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• marvel (n.): 1. one which evokes surprise, admiration, or wonder; (synonyms): wonder, miracle, phenomenon, marvel; these nouns denote one which evokes amazement or admiration; [e.g.]: “saw the wonders of Paris”; “a miracle of culinary art”; “a phenomenon of medical science”; “a marvel of modern technology”; 2. (archaic): strong surprise; astonishment; (v.): marvels, marvelled or marvelling; intr.v.): to become filled with wonder or astonishment; (tr.v.): to feel amazement or bewilderment at or about; [e.g.]: “We marvelled at how they walked away unhurt from the car accident”. [Middle English merveille, marvail, from Old French merveille, from Vulgar Latin *miribilia, alteration of Latin mīrābilia, ‘wonderful things’, from neuter pl. of mīrābilis, ‘wonderful’, from mīrārī, ‘to wonder’, from mīrus, ‘wonderful’]. ~ (American Heritage Dictionary).
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• marvel (n.): something which causes feelings of wonder; [e.g.]: “the wonders of modern science”; (synonyms): wonder; (related words): happening, natural event, occurrence, occurrent (an event which happens); (v.): 1. be amazed at; [e.g.]: “We marvelled at the child’s linguistic abilities”; (synonyms): wonder; (related words): react, respond (show a response or a reaction to something); 2. express astonishment or surprise about something; (related words): give tongue to, utter, express, verbalise (articulate; either verbally or with a cry, shout, or noise; [e.g.]: “She expressed her anger”; “He uttered a curse”). ~ (Princeton’s WordNet 3.0).
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• wonderment (n.): 1. the emotion aroused by something awe-inspiring or astounding; (synonyms): amaze, amazement, astonishment, awe, marvel, wonder; (archaic): admiration, dread; 2. one which evokes great surprise and admiration; (synonyms): astonishment, marvel, miracle, phenomenon, prodigy, sensation, stunner, wonder; (idioms): one for the books, the eighth wonder of the world. ~ (The American Heritage Roget’s Thesaurus).
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• wonderment (n.): 1. rapt surprise; awe; 2. puzzled interest; 3. something that excites wonder. ~ (Collins English Dictionary).
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• wonderment (n.): the feeling aroused by something strange and surprising; [e.g.]: “With a feeling of utter wonderment she looked towards the setting sun”; (synonyms): wonder, admiration; (related words): amazement, astonishment (the feeling which accompanies something extremely surprising; [e.g.]: “He looked on with astonishment at such a rare sight”; awe (an overwhelming feeling of wonder or admiration; [e.g.]: “With a feeling of awe he stared over the edge of the abyss”). ~ (Princeton’s WordNet 3.0).
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Random Literary Samples.
• “I didn’t expect her to say this and kind of caught me off-guard. I just looked and smiled in *wonderment* of why this was said. ... In essence, it sort of gives an up to date credence to the influence and freshness of what is currently occurring in youthful circles today”. [emphasis added]. ~ (from “Albures, or Dirty Spanish 101”, by Sergio Gomez; Jan 7, 2009, Mex Connect).
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• “Townshend later told her afterward that her performance made him weep, and at the end, you can see Barbra Streisand turn to Townshend and ask in *wonderment*, ‘Did you write that song?’”. [emphasis added]. ~ (from “Amid Dreary Concert Season, Bettye LaVette’s Triumphant Return”, by Art Levine; Aug 05, 2010, Huffington Post).
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• “Sometimes the world’s best golfers look like weekend hackers. As they watched defending champ Padraig Harrington implode with a quintuple-bogey eight on the par-3 8th hole Sunday, CBS’ team didn’t know whether to laugh or cry. ‘That was close to a shank’, Faldo said in *wonderment* as Harrington hit the second of two balls into the water”. [emphasis added]. ~ (from “PGA Championship Duel; Vick Interview Serve CBS Well”, by Michael McCarthy; Aug 16, 2009, USA Today).
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• “The Indians looked at him in *wonderment* that he should laugh”. [emphasis added]. ~ (page 11, Chapter One, in the 1916 volume “Lost Face”, by Jack London; 1919, Mills & Boon, London).
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• “She deliberately snapped the string, and, amid a shower of pearls, the flowers fell to the waiting lover. She gazed at him until the tears blinded her and she buried her face on the shoulder of Jeremy Sambrooke, who forgot his beloved statistics in *wonderment* at girl babies who insisted on growing up”. [emphasis added]. ~ (Chapter Four: ‘Aloha Oe’, in the 1919 volume “The House of Pride, and Other Tales of Hawaii”, by Jack London; Mills & Boon, London).
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• “Around them, the Grand Central crowd looks on in *wonderment*, trying to figure out what’s going on—a little scared, but delighted too”. [emphasis added]. ~ (from “Pranksters Stand Still for Five Minutess in Grand Central Station”, by Cory Doctrow, Feb 01, 2008, Boing Boing).
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