enjoyment
/ɪnˈd͡ʒɔɪ.mənt/ noun B1- The condition of enjoying anything. · Few activities better the enjoyment of a hearty meal eaten in good company.
- An enjoyable state of mind; a feeling of satisfaction or delight from a situation. · I experienced more enjoyment from summer camp than any part of school.
- An activity that gives pleasure.
- The exercise of a legal right.
Plural enjoyments
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Not that Matthew complained, to be sure; he listened to it all with a wordless smile of enjoyment on his face; Marilla permitted the “chatter” until she found herself becoming too interested in it, whereupon she always promptly quenched Anne by a curt command to hold her tongue.
Rachel came, wandering at her own sweet will through the lush, tremulous grasses splashed with ruddy evening sunshine; so that good lady had an excellent chance to talk her illness fully over, describing every ache and pulse beat with such evident enjoyment that Marilla thought even grippe must bring its compensations.
It was a night for enjoyment.
The sisters, on hearing this, repeated three or four times how much they were grieved, how shocking it was to have a bad cold, and how excessively they disliked being ill themselves; and then thought no more of the matter: and their indifference towards Jane, when not immediately before them, restored Elizabeth to the enjoyment of all her original dislike.
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