delight vs exhilaration

delight

noun
  • Joy; pleasure. 

  • Something that gives great joy or pleasure. 

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

  • To have or take great pleasure. 

exhilaration

noun
  • The act of enlivening the spirits; the act of making glad or cheerful; a gladdening. 

  • The state of being enlivened, cheerful or exhilarated. 

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