gladder

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"I'm glad to see ye--gladder nor I can tell ye There was something in the greeting so hearty, so warm and tender and full of faith, that Miss Butterworth was touched.

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  1. One who makes glad or gives joy. O lady myn, Venus, … Thou gladere of the mount of Citheroun. Chaucer, Knight's Tale, l. 1365.
  2. Same as gladden.
  3. Comparativo of glad.

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  • I'm sorry that I disobeyed you, but I'm glad I went and I don't know whether I'm gladder or sorrier. —  Pearl and Periwinkle
  • "I'm glad to see ye--gladder nor I can tell ye There was something in the greeting so hearty, so warm and tender and full of faith, that Miss Butterworth was touched. —  Sevenoaks
  • He is just as rich to-day as he was when he entered the city I'm so glad to hear it--gladder than I can express," said Mrs. Dillingham, with heartiness Her effusiveness of good feeling and her evident relief from anxiety, were honey to him Don't trouble yourself about me," said he, musingly. —  Sevenoaks
  • It was to hear a gladder, wilder tumult that she sat once more so still, so achingly listening "The earnest trumpet spake, and silver thrills From kissing cymbals made a merry din--" The words seemed to move on the page. —  Widdershins
  • They were glad enough to take me on--gladder, I'm thinkin', than I was to be taken. —  Between You and Me
 

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  1. from Middle English glader, from gladien, make glad.
 

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