morose delectation
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Calque of Medieval Latin dēlectātiō mōrōsa, used and possibly coined by Thomas Aquinas in the Summa Theologiae.[1]
Noun
[edit]morose delectation (countable and uncountable, plural morose delectations)
- (Catholicism) The act of lingering with pleasure on an impure thought.
- For quotations using this term, see Citations:morose delectation.
References
[edit]- ^ Part II-I, q. 74. For the original text and a translation: