"delectability" meaning in English

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        "The quality of being delectable."
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        "(uncountable) The quality of being delectable."
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          "text": "I had heard of this court and its delectabilities, and at the same time been informed that its throne was a faro-table, to which the initiated were imperatively expected to become tributaries.",
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          "text": "But we will look a little more closely at the delectabilities of these three volumes.",
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          "text": "With wine at hand, the good man concerns himself, not with getting drunk, but with drinking in all the natural delectabilities of wine: taste, color, bouquet; […]",
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