noun / verb
delight
di-LYTE/dɪˈlaɪt/
Great pleasure or joy.
The puppy licking his cheek fills him with delight.
Etymology
Latin delectare joins the ideas of charming people and giving them great pleasure. Delight names the intense enjoyment produced by something that pleases or captivates.
In context
on these preliminary circumstances but they are days of comparative happiness and I think of them with pleasure my country my beloved country who but a native can tell the Delight I took in again beholding thy streams