单词 | gladness |
释义 | gladnessn. The state of being glad; joy, rejoicing. †Also, cheerfulness, alacrity (in action). ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > pleasure > joy, gladness, or delight > [noun] merrinesseOE gladnessc900 mirtheOE playeOE dreamOE gladshipc975 lissOE willOE hightOE blithenessc1000 gladc1000 winOE blissc1175 delices?c1225 delight?c1225 joy?c1225 comfortc1230 listc1275 gladhead1303 daintyc1325 fainnessc1340 lightnessa1350 delectationc1384 delightingc1390 comfortationa1400 fainheada1400 blithec1400 fainc1400 delicacyc1405 gladsomeness1413 reveriea1425 joyousitiea1450 joyfulnessc1485 jucundity1536 joyousness1549 joc1560 delightfulness1565 jouissance1579 joyance1590 levitya1631 revelling1826 chuckle1837 joyancy1849 a song in one's heart1862 delightsomeness1866 c900 tr. Bede Eccl. Hist. (1891) v. xvii. [xix.] 454 Þa ongan se bysceop lustfullian þæs iungan snytro..& glædnesse his dæda. c1230 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Corpus Cambr.) (1962) 66 Al þe hurd were forȝeten for þe gleadnesse [a1250 Nero glednesse]. a1240 Ureisun in Cott. Hom. 199 Ich þe biseche..þat þu bringe þene Munuch to þire glednesse. 1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) 1 Esdras iv. 63 Thei ioȝeden ful out with musikis and gladnessys seuene daȝes. a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 5249 Quen ioseph wit his fader mett..þai grett for gladnes. 1413 Pilgr. Sowle (1483) iv. xx. 64 I had ioye entier and eke gladnesse. 1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry V f. lxxv The greate gladnes, the hertie reioysyng and the greate delight that the comen people had at this concorde. 1609 W. Shakespeare Troilus & Cressida i. i. 39 Sorrow that is coucht in seeming gladnesse, Is like that mirth fate turnes to suddaine sadnesse. View more context for this quotation 1751 S. Johnson Rambler No. 141. ⁋4 My company gave alacrity to a frolick, and gladness to a holiday. 1814 S. Rogers Jacqueline i. 74 Her every gesture said ‘rejoice’, Her coming was a gladness. 1874 J. R. Green Short Hist. Eng. People v. §1. 213 It is this new gladness of a great people which utters itself in the verse of Geoffrey Chaucer. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1899; most recently modified version published online December 2018). < n.c900 |
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