Citations:morose delectation

English citations of morose delectation

• 1917 [c. 1270], Thomas Aquinas, translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province, Summa Theologiae:

  It would seem that the sin of morose delectation is not in the reason.

• 1997, Ellis Hanson, Decadence and Catholicism‎^[1], →ISBN, page 144:

  Morose delectation is at the heart of Huysmans' depiction of sodomy. Strangely, it is a sodomy without sex.

• 2004, Robert Timberg, State of Grace‎^[2], →ISBN, page 102:

  You knew the difference between the random impure thought and a morose delectation. If you had time to enjoy it, you had let the show go on too long.

• 2004, Ralph McInerney, “The Story God Tells”, in The Chesterton Review, →DOI:

  The targets of these witty put-downs could scarcely enjoy them, but the reader is soon in the grips of morose delectation.