Gladness
['ɡlædnəs]
Definition
(n.) State or quality of being glad; pleasure; joyful satisfaction; cheerfulness.
Typist: Natalie
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Joy, joyfulness, joyousness, happiness, gratification, delight, pleasure.
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Examples
- It was something beyond love, such a gladness of having surpassed oneself, of having transcended the old existence. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- That childish gladness wounded his mother, who was herself so grieved to part with him. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- The effect of these words was not quite all gladness. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Each stone deity was possessed by sacred gladness, and the eternal fruition of love. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- My blessed boy, words can't express my gladness. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- What a gladness to think that whatever humanity did, it could not seize hold of the kingdom of death, to nullify that. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- It was a gladness above all, that this remained to look forward to, the pure inhuman otherness of death. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- I thought there never was such gladness in the air before, such brightness in the sun, such beauty in the sea. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- But his heart was heavy, that Mother had NOT crowned him in the day of his espousals and in the day of the gladness of his heart. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- It was his gladness then which impelled him now to be glad that the life was at an end. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- But she needed time to gather up her strength; she needed to sob out her farewell to all the gladness and pride of her life. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- At efening I shall gif a little lesson with much gladness, for look you, Mees Marsch, I haf this debt to pay. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- It was then in undiminished gladness she sought her couch. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- And in undiminished gladness she rose the next day. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
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