delight vs pride and joy

delight

noun
  • Something that gives great joy or pleasure. 

  • Joy; pleasure. 

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

  • To have or take great pleasure. 

pride and joy

noun
  • A possession that is very highly valued. 

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