Gladden vs Gloat - What's the difference?
gladden | gloat |
To cause (something) to become more glad.
*1798 , William Wordsworth,
*:A balmy night! and tho' the stars be dim, / Yet let us think upon the vernal showers / That gladden the green earth, and we shall find / A pleasure in the dimness of the stars.
*1838 , Charles Dickens,
*:Her body was bent by age; her limbs trembled with palsy; her face, distorted into a mumbling leer, resembled more the grotesque shaping of some wild pencil, than the work of Nature's hand. Alas! How few of Nature's faces are left alone to gladden us with their beauty!
(archaic) To become more glad in one's disposition.
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*:In May when every lusty heart flourisheth and bourgeoneth, for as the season is lusty to behold and comfortable, so man and woman rejoice and gladden of summer coming with his fresh flowers: for winter with his rough winds and blasts causeth a lusty man and woman to cower and sit fast by the fire.
As verbs the difference between gladden and gloat
is that gladden is to cause (something) to become more glad while gloat is to exhibit a conspicuous sense of self-satisfaction, often at an adversary's misfortune.As a noun gloat is
an act or instance of gloating.gladden
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(en verb)The Nightingale:
Oliver Twist: