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Gladden   /glˈædən/   Listen
Gladden

verb
(past & past part. gladdened; pres. part. gladdening)
1.
Make glad or happy.  Synonym: joy.  Antonym: sadden.
2.
Become glad or happy.  Antonym: sadden.






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"Gladden" Quotes from Famous Books



... take his recovered son at once to gladden his mother's eyes; but Michael's little red frock would not exactly suit with the manner of ...
— That Stick • Charlotte M. Yonge

... may be, those who reach it will behold the mechanism of the universe in its perfection. Those stars, now studding the firmament in such apparent confusion, will there appear in all their regularity, as worlds revolving in their several orbits, round suns which gladden them with light and heat, all in harmony, all in beauty, rejoicing as they roll their destined course in obedience to the Almighty fiat; one vast, stupendous, and, to the limits of our present senses, incomprehensible mechanism, ...
— Newton Forster • Frederick Marryat

... general malignity, and changes sullenness to petulance, till at last none can bear any longer the presence of the rest. They retire to vent their indignation in safer places, where they are heard with attention; their importance is restored, they recover their good humour, and gladden the night ...
— The Works of Samuel Johnson in Nine Volumes - Volume IV: The Adventurer; The Idler • Samuel Johnson

... the Presbyterian Board of Missions. It was an object of especial interest to Mr. and Mrs. Stuart, and its flourishing condition at this period, and the prospects of extensive future usefulness it held out, might well gladden their philanthropic hearts. They had lived many years on the island, and had witnessed its transformation, through God's blessing on Christian efforts, from a worldly, dissipated community to one of which it might almost be said, "Religion was every man's ...
— Wau-bun - The Early Day in the Northwest • Juliette Augusta Magill Kinzie

... shoots occur to puzzle the expert, gladden the heart of the prospector, and madden the shareholder, but the eccentricity of gold is further exemplified by the way in which it has been been ...
— Spinifex and Sand - Five Years' Pioneering and Exploration in Western Australia • David W Carnegie


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