gladdest

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gladdest

  1. superlative form of glad: most glad
    • 1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XXVI, in Francesca Carrara. , volume I, London: Richard Bentley, , (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 303:
      I believe there are few who have not, even in their gladdest hours, felt how nearly gaiety and sadness are allied; a shadow steals over the spirits, like a cloud over the moon, soft and subduing, perhaps transitory, but not the less dark for the moment.