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Definition of Gladdening
1. gladden [v] - See also: gladden
Lexicographical Neighbors of Gladdening
Literary usage of Gladdening
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Elephant-hunting in East Equatorial Africa: Being an Account of Three Years by Arthur H. Neumann (1898)
"... a promise—A spider and its prey— A gladdening feast—Lacking a handy camera—A
curious coincidence—El Molo mode of fishing—Stalking zebra-. ..."
2. The Fall of Jerusalem: A Dramatic Poem by the Rev. H. H. Hilman by Henry Hart Milman (1820)
"Glory mounts with her, Her deep seraphic trumpet swelling loud O'er /ion's
gladdening towers. JOHN. Why, then, to sleep. This fight by day, and revel all ..."
3. A Selection from the Letters of the Late Sarah Grubb (formerly Sarah Lynes) by Sarah Grubb (1848)
"inner man; and that there may be a partaking of the wine that she hath mingled;
even for the replenishing and gladdening that part which cannot be satisfied ..."
4. The Book of the Poets by Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1877)
"... ends Than pleasure only ; gladdening to prepare For wholesome sadness, troubling
to refine, Calming to raise. —words of the poet, which form a nobler de ..."
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