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Enjoyment   /ɛndʒˈɔɪmənt/  /ɪndʒˈɔɪmənt/   Listen
noun
Enjoyment  n.  
1.
The condition of enjoying anything; pleasure or satisfaction, as in the possession or occupancy of anything; possession and use; as, the enjoyment of an estate.
2.
That which gives pleasure or keen satisfaction. "The hope of everlasting enjoyments."
Synonyms: Pleasure; satisfaction; gratification; fruition; happiness; felicity; delight.





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"Enjoyment" Quotes from Famous Books



... laws are conducive to the enjoyment of those they govern, each individual can judge for himself. In the Southern papers, we continually see pictures of runaway negroes, and sometimes the advertisements identify them by scars, or by letters branded upon them. Is it natural for men to run away ...
— An Appeal in Favor of that Class of Americans Called Africans • Lydia Maria Child
... politically considered, necessary to the justifiable claims for protection and full enjoyment of all the rights and privileges of an unqualified freeman, in all democratic countries is, that each person so endowed, shall have made contributions and investments in the country. Where there is no investment there can be but little interest; ...
— The Condition, Elevation, Emigration, and Destiny of the Colored People of the United States • Martin R. Delany
... for sleep and ten for enjoyment of the arts and luxuries. Then we really should enjoy them, and if we couldn't have them unless we did our six hours' stint, ennui and the dissipations that it ...
— The Avalanche • Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton
... remembrance that these scenes had been known to those whom he loved. Often in the chamber, and often in the bower, their forms arose; sometimes their voices lingered in his ear; a frolic laugh, or whispered words of kindness and enjoyment. Such a place as Muriel should always be so peopled. But that is impossible. One cannot always have the most agreeable people in the world assembled under one's roof. And yet the alternative should not be the loneliness ...
— Lothair • Benjamin Disraeli
... advice, not without irony: "Let nothing induce [the English Whigs] to join with the Tories in supporting and continuing this wicked war against the Whigs of America, whose assistance they may hereafter want to secure their own liberties, or whose country they may be glad to retire to for the enjoyment of them." Hartley must have had a marvelous good temper, if he read without resentment the very blunt and severe replies which Franklin a little mercilessly made to the other's ever temperate ...
— Benjamin Franklin • John Torrey Morse, Jr.


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