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the state or feeling of being glad. v. glæd;
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  • Syndon eahta heálice mægnu . . . glædnes (

    laetitia, cf. Hml. S. 16, 345) and ánrǽdnys (the opposites of unrótnys and ásolcennys), Wlfst. 69, 1 Ꝥte glædnise (gaudium )

    mín in iúch sié,
      Jn. L. 15, 11.
  • Hí gesíðodon tó Críste . . . fram eallum costnungum tó ealre glædnysse

    from all temptations to joy,

      Hml. A. 26, 42.
  • Mið ege and mið micle glædnise,

      Mt. L. 28, 8.
  • Fore gladnise

    prae gaudio,

      13, 44.
  • Unródtnis iúero gecerred bið in glædnise, Jn. L. 16, 20. I a.

    gladness

    on account of something. v. glæd;
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  • Wíf ðín beres ðé suno. . . . And bið gefeá ðé and glædnise (

    gaudium tibi et exultatio

    ),
      Lk. R. L. 1, 14.
  • Ðis for ðon glædnise mín gefylled is

    hoc ergo gaudium meum impletum est,

      Jn. L. 3, 29.
a pleasurable condition, state of happiness
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  • Glædnys

    ludus,

      Germ. 398, 64.
  • Geong in glædnisse hláferdes ðínes,

      Mt. L. 25, 23.
  • On xxvii and on xxviii nihta ꝥ tácnað ealne gefeán, and ealle angnysse and uneáðnysse smyltnysse and glædnesse gehátað,

      Lch. iii. 156, 14.
alacrity, cheerful readiness. Cf. glædlíce;
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  • Gode man sceal dón mid glædnysse ǽfre þá betstan behát,

      Hml. A. 35, 272.
  • Þá Godes þegnas mid glædnysse efston, ástræhton heora swuran tó slæge for Críste,

      Hml. S. 28, 70.
kindness, gentleness, favourable consideration, favour. v. glæd;
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  • His glednes hilaritas eius (sicut ros super herbam, ita et

    hilaritas eius

    (sc. regis)),
      Kent. Gl. 688.
  • Mycel glædnysse on him wæs

    humilitatem in corde praeferebat.

      Guth. Gr. 170, 175.
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