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Webster 1913 Edition

Verb.

[

imp. & p. p.

Gladdened

;

p. pr. & vb. n.

Gladdening

[See

Verb.

]

To make glad; to cheer; to please; to gratify; to rejoice; to exhilarate.

A secret pleasure

gladdened

all that saw him.

Addison.

Verb.

To be or become glad; to rejoice.

The vast Pacific

gladdens

with the freight.

Wordsworth.

Verb.

glad'n. To make glad; to cheer; to please; to exhilarate. The news of peace gladdens our hearts.

Churches will every where gladden his eye,

and hymns of praise vibrate upon his ear.

Verb.

glad'n. To become glad; to rejoice.

So shall your country ever gladden at the sound of your voice.