Both Uses
revel
in
Ready Player One
(Edited)
- Thousands of avatars came to every show, to sit in the stands and revel in the audience participation.
p. 179.1revel = take delight
- We sat there awhile, holding hands, reveling in the strange new sensation of actually touching one another.
p. 372.6 *reveling = taking delight
Definitions:
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(1)
(revel) to take delight in; or to party or celebrate -- especially in a noisy way
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(2)
(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."