Definition of Gladnesses

1. gladness [n] - See also: gladness

Lexicographical Neighbors of Gladnesses

gladiolas
gladiole
gladioles
gladioli
gladiolus
gladioluses
gladite
gladius
gladiuses
gladiusite
gladlier
gladliest
gladly
gladly suffer fools
gladness
gladnesses (current term)
glads
gladship
gladsome
gladsomely
gladsomeness
gladsomenesses
gladsomer
gladsomest
gladstones
gladwyn
glady
glafenine
glaik
glaiket

Literary usage of Gladnesses

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Conjugial Love and Its Chaste Delights: Also, Adulterous Love and Its Sinful by Emanuel Swedenborg (1871)
"That they are the gladnesses of love, is well known, for the mind is exhilarated at the sight of them; and because love is in them, those favors are dearer ..."

2. Arcana cœlestia: or Heavenly mysteries contained in the sacred Scriptures by Emanuel Swedenborg (1864)
"Hence it is that dances are mentioned in the "Word, and thereby are signified the gladnesses of the affections of truth or faith derived from good or ..."

3. Arcana cœlestia: or Heavenly mysteries contained in the sacred Scriptures by Emanuel Swedenborg (1863)
"... because the nature of the interior gladness and beauty, which are represented, is not at all known by those who are only in the gladnesses of the love ..."

4. The Practical Nature of the Doctrines and Alleged Revelations Contained in by Augustus Clissold (1839)
"... beauty which are represented, is not at all known by those who are only in the gladnesses of the love of the world, and in the delights of self-love. ..."

5. Gems of Heavenly Wisdom from the Writings of Swedenborg by Emanuel Swedenborg, J. Stuart Bogg (1887)
"That these spiritual gladnesses and felicities may be understood, an idea may be conceived of ... Spiritual gladnesses are the forms of celestial things, ..."

Other Resources:

Search for Gladnesses on Dictionary.com!Search for Gladnesses on Thesaurus.com!Search for Gladnesses on Google!Search for Gladnesses on Wikipedia!

Search