Definition of "gladdened" []

• Simple past tense and past participle of gladden. (verb)

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• "It was one of those evenings of surpassing loveliness, such as gladdened our hearts only at long intervals."
• "But it is with sincere amiability that the imperial writer, who was indeed little used to be ironical, adds that the lively respect and affection of the junior had often "gladdened" him."
• "For some reason, his dismissal of the buxom brunette gladdened Regin."