delightsome

[ dih-lahyt-suhm ]

/ dɪˈlaɪt səm /

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adjective Literary.

highly pleasing; delightful.

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Origin of delightsome

First recorded in 1490–1500; delight + -some¹

de·light·some·ly, adverbde·light·some·ness, noun

The morning vastly pleasant & Cohansie looks a delightsome as ever it used I went to meeting.
Journal and Letters of Philip Vickers Fithian: A Plantation Tutor of the Old Dominion, 1773-1774.|Philip Vickers Fithian
There's nothing delightsome without society, no society so sweet as matrimony.
How to be Happy Though Married|E. J. Hardy.
What more delightsome than an infinite variety of sweet smelling flowers?
On the Portraits of English Authors on Gardening,|Samuel Felton
Who knows not that the first scene of infancy is far the most pleasant and delightsome?
In Praise of Folly|Desiderius Erasmus

His manor was so fair and so delightsome that all the world did not contain its peer.
Archaic England|Harold Bayley