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单词 glad of
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glad of
b. with prep. glad of: (a) made happy or joyful, delighted or pleased with (an object possessed) (obsolete); (b) = ‘glad to have or get’ (see 3d); (c) joyful on account of, delighted or pleased by (an event, a state of things). Also const. at (an event, usually one affecting another person, esp. unfavourably), for (archaic), †in, †with.
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the mind > emotion > pleasure > joy, gladness, or delight > [adjective] > joyful at or on account of something
gladc950
jocund?a1400
joyed1491
delighting1601
c950 Lindisf. Gosp. Luke i. 14 And bið gifea ðe & glædnise & monigo in accennisse his biðon glæde.
c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 3179 Elysabæþ Wass gladd inoh. & bliþe. Off hire dere child iohan.
c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1963) l. 1977 Þe king wes gled [c1300 Otho glade] for his kime & for þen cnihtes bet come mid hine.
a1325 (c1250) Gen. & Exod. (1968) l. 3671 Moyses was bliðe an glað of ðis.
a1425 (c1395) Bible (Wycliffite, L.V.) (Royal) (1850) Prov. xvii. 5 He that is glad in the fallyng of another man [1611 He that is glad at calamities] schal not be vnpunyschid.
1480 W. Caxton Chron. Eng. liv. (1482) 38 He wepte ful tenderly..and netheles he was somdele glad of his deth.
1548 Hall's Vnion: Edward IV f. cciiijv The kyng, glad of this victory, commaunded [etc.].
1585 Sir P. Sidney Let. 22 Nov. in Misc. Wks. (1829) 307 I fynd the people very glad of me.
1599 W. Shakespeare Romeo & Juliet iv. ii. 28 Why I am glad ont. View more context for this quotation
a1616 W. Shakespeare Cymbeline (1623) i. i. 15 Not a Courtier..hath a heart that is not Glad at the thing they scowle at. View more context for this quotation
1617 F. Moryson Itinerary i. 178 They gave us flesh to eat, whereof I was glad as of a dainty I could not get in Italy.
1625–6 S. Purchas Pilgrimes II. 1165 And he sent me word that he was very glad with my safe arrival.
1648 T. Gage Eng.-Amer. (1655) xii. 49 Garcia Holguin being a glad man of such a prisoner.
1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Æneis x, in tr. Virgil Wks. 531 The Trojan, glad with sight of hostile Blood.
1738 J. Swift Compl. Coll. Genteel Conversat. 119 Madam, Dinner's upon the Table…Faith, I'm glad of it.
1784 F. Burney Diary 22 Apr. (1842) II. 310 I am so glad of seeing your sentiments, when I cannot hear them, that your letters are only less valuable to me than yourself.
1807 R. Southey Lett. from Eng. III. 320 The Westminster boys were working an engine in the cloisters..D...said they were glad at the fire.
1842 Ld. Tennyson Dora in Poems (new ed.) II. 36 When his heart is glad Of the full harvest.
1870 W. Morris Earthly Paradise: Pt. III 229 For life and love that has been, I am glad.
1874 G. W. Dasent Half a Life II. 201 I was glad at the sport.
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