Lexicographical Neighbors of Deliciousnesses
Literary usage of Deliciousnesses
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Whole Works of the Right Rev. Jeremy Taylor by Jeremy Taylor, Charles Page Eden, Reginald Heber, Alexander Taylor (1850)
"... to attempt its conquest : so God's grace represents to the new converts and
the weak ones in faith, the pleasures and first deliciousnesses of religion; ..."
2. The Metropolitan (1847)
"... and she would fly to me to pour out the gushing tenderness of her soul—to tell
the thousand deliciousnesses which throng the young wife's and mother's ..."
3. Sacred Classics: Or, Cabinet Library of Divinity by Henry Stebbing, Richard Cattermole (1835)
"So God's grace represents to the new converts, and the weak ones in faith, the
pleasures and first deliciousnesses of religion ; and when they come to spy ..."
4. The Sermons of the Right Rev. Jeremy Taylor: Complete in One Volume by Jeremy Taylor (1874)
"... so God's grace represents to the new converts, and the weak ones in faith,
the pleasures and first deliciousnesses of religion ; and when they come to ..."
5. Illustrations of the Liturgy and Ritual of the United Church of England and by James Brogden (1842)
"... and the weak ones in faith, the pleasures and first deliciousnesses of religion ;
and when they come to spy the good things of that way that leads to ..."
6. The Illustrated Manners Book: A Manual of Good Behavior and Polite by Robert De Valcourt (1855)
"... no person of taste parades the little deliciousnesses of a love affair before
the world. It is not proper ; it is not dignified ; it is not benevolent. ..."