Definition of Gladdening

1. Verb. (present participle of gladden) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Gladdening

1. gladden [v] - See also: gladden

Lexicographical Neighbors of Gladdening

glad-handers
glad-handing
glad-hands
glad-wrap
glad eye
glad hand
glad hands
glad rags
glad tidings
glad wrap
gladded
gladden
gladdened
gladdener
gladdeners
gladdening (current term)
gladdens
gladder
gladdest
gladdie
gladdies
gladding
gladdon
gladdon iris
gladdons
glade
glade fern
glade mallow
gladelike
gladen

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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