Gladden vs Happy - What's the difference?
gladden | happy |
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.
Experiencing the effect of favourable fortune; having the feeling arising from the consciousness of well-being or of enjoyment; enjoying good of any kind, as peace, tranquillity, comfort; contented; joyous.
* 1769 , Oxford Standard text, , 144, xv,
* 1777 , (Alexander Pope), An Essay on Man in Four Epistles: Argument of Epistle II'', in ''The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Esq , Volume III,
Favored by luck or fortune; lucky.
* 1661 , (Robert Boyle), (The Sceptical Chymist) , 2006, Elibron Classics (imprint),
Dexterous; ready; apt; felicitous.
* 1761 , (Jonathan Swift), A Complete Collection of Genteel and Ingenious Conversation'': Introduction, in ''The works of Dr Jonathan Swift , Volume VII,
Content, satisfied (with or to do something); having no objection (to something).
(As a suffix to a noun) favouring or inclined to use, as in trigger-happy.
* {{quote-news
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, title=The Darkness: Hot Cakes (Music Review)
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As a verb gladden
is to cause (something) to become more glad.As an adjective happy is
experiencing the effect of favourable fortune; having the feeling arising from the consciousness of well-being or of enjoyment; enjoying good of any kind, as peace, tranquillity, comfort; contented; joyous.gladden
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(en verb)The Nightingale:
Oliver Twist:
Synonyms
* cheer, cheer up, gratify, pleaseAnagrams
*happy
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(er)- Happy' is that people, that is in such a case: yea, ' happy is that people, whose God is the LORD.
page 26,
- The learn'd is happy' nature to explore, / The fool is ' happy that he knows no more ;
- Music makes me feel happy .
page 227,
- I may presume that what I have hitherto discoursed will induce you to think, that chymists have been much more happy in finding experiments than the causes of them; or in assigning the principles by which they may best be explained.
page 246,
- For instance, one lady can give an an?wer better than a?k a que?tion : one gentleman is happy at a reply ; another excels in a rejoinder : one can revive a langui?hing conver?ation by a ?udden ?urpri?ing ?entence ;.
- Are you happy to pay me back by the end of the week?
- Are you happy with your internet service provider?
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