Both Uses of
revel
in
The Book Thief
- Newspaper headlines reveled in it.
p. 73.9 *reveled = took delight
- After months of failure, this moment was his only chance to revel in some victory.
p. 303.5revel = take delight
Definitions:
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(1)
(revel) to take delight in
or:
to party -- especially in a noisy way -
(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) meaning too rare to warrant focus:
More rarely today (though common in classic literature), revel can be used as a noun that is a synonym for party -- as when Shakespeare wrote "I delight in masques and revels sometimes."