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  • adjective superlative form of glad: most glad.

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Examples

  • And the soul that is the gladdest is the soul that builds a home.

    Just Folks 1920

  • And Allah vouchsafed him children by her, and they both lived the gladdest and happiest of lives, till there came to them the Destroyer of delights and the Severer of societies and the

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • Princess Miriam filled the cup and drank and gave the Wazir to drink and served him with assiduous service, so that he was like to fly for joy and his breast broadened and he was of the gladdest.

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • Among the gladdest tidings of the season: the re-appearance of two classics by E.B. White, recorded unabridged, decades ago.

    The New Oral Tradition 2008

  • The gladdest part is that Laura's music is alive, vital, and accessible.

    Laura Nyro Divers 2008

  • Then they brought an ewer and basin of gold, and he washed his right hand and abode in the gladdest of life and the most honourable.

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • Thrice happy those among us who as conquerors shall look upon this gladdest of all days.

    Hellenica 2007

  • Sometimes, indeed, a whole tragedy grows out of a single gesture; the tone in which a few words were spoken rends a whole life in two; a glance into indifferent eyes is the deathblow of the gladdest love; and, unhappily, such gestures and such words were only too familiar to

    A Woman of Thirty 2007

  • Elegant eats, short ginger-talks, and memories shared together of the brightest, gladdest days of life.

    Babbit 2004

  • Jehannot, who expected a farre contrary conclusion then this, hearing him speake it with such constancy; was the very gladdest man in the world, and went with him to the Church of Nostre Dame in

    The Decameron 2004

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