delight vs excite

delight

verb
  • To give delight to; to affect with great pleasure; to please highly. 

  • To have or take great pleasure. 

noun
  • Joy; pleasure. 

  • Something that gives great joy or pleasure. 

excite

verb
  • To arouse or bring out (e.g. feelings); to stimulate. 

  • To cause an electron to move to a higher than normal state; to promote an electron to an outer level. 

  • To energize (an electromagnet); to produce a magnetic field in. 

  • To stir the emotions of. 

How often have the words delight and excite occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )