Oblectation

Ob´lec`ta´tion


n. 1. The act of pleasing highly; the state of being greatly pleased; delight.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, published 1913 by G. & C. Merriam Co.
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The angel says that ' Allah made the houris of two kinds <sic!>: ones for oblectation to the right, the others he made beautiful maidens because of their pietist conduct during their earthly life.
Pleasant symmetry: fiction in classical Arabic literature
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