delight vs joy

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. 

joy

noun
  • A feeling of extreme happiness or cheerfulness, especially related to the acquisition or expectation of something good. 

  • Anything that causes such a feeling. 

  • Luck or success; a positive outcome. 

verb
  • To feel joy, to rejoice. 

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