Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In a gladsome manner; with joy; with pleasure.
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- adverb archaic
gladly
Etymologies
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Examples
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But she was dressed in breeches and a slouch hat, a cigarette hung from the corner of her mouth, and she beckoned April gladsomely with an immense cowthong whip.
Blue Aloes Stories of South Africa Cynthia Stockley
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The Advent bells are ringing in many parishes throughout various parts of England during this month of December, if I may judge from my own neighbourhood -- on the western borders of Berks -- where, at least three times in the week, I hear their merry peals break gladsomely upon the dark stillness of these cold evenings, from many a steeple around.
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"Similar thoughts has smote my colossal intellect, Butch!" responded the bean-pole Hicks, gladsomely.
T. Haviland Hicks Senior J. Raymond Elderdice
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The Bannister Band, that famous campus musical organization, following a time-honored habit of playing on every possible occasion, gladsomely tuned up and soon the noise was deafening, while study-hour, as prescribed by the Faculty, was forgotten.
T. Haviland Hicks Senior J. Raymond Elderdice
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"Oh, just leave it to Hicks!" quoth he, gladsomely.
T. Haviland Hicks Senior J. Raymond Elderdice
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The peasants looked out upon the world from beneath their brows, as their cottages from beneath the pines; and they lived gladsomely, as they should.
Tales of the Wilderness Boris Pilniak 1915
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"Shall I in Walhalla be greeted gladsomely by a woman?"
The Wagnerian Romances Gertrude Hall Brownell 1912
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Scarcely have they had time to alight and seek out quarters than the little man makes his appearance at my menzil door in all the glory of a crimson velvet dressing-cap and blue slippers, and beaming gladsomely through his moon-like spectacles, he comes forward and without further ceremony shakes hands.
Around the World on a Bicycle - Volume II From Teheran To Yokohama Thomas Stevens 1894
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She walked so gladsomely that she trod on the air.
The Lilac Sunbonnet 1887
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The animals run more swiftly, birds fly more quickly and sing more merrily, and plants put forth their leaves and flowers most gladsomely.
Treatise on the Love of God 1567-1622 1884
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