What does gladness mean?
Definitions for gladness
glad·ness
Here are all the possible meanings and translations of the word gladness.
Princeton's WordNet
gladness, gladfulness, gladsomenessnoun
experiencing joy and pleasure
Wiktionary
gladnessnoun
The state of being glad; joy.
Webster Dictionary
Gladnessnoun
state or quality of being glad; pleasure; joyful satisfaction; cheerfulness
Etymology: [AS. gldnes.]
Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of gladness in Chaldean Numerology is: 9
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of gladness in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9
Examples of gladness in a Sentence
I care for riches, to make giftsTo friends, or lead a sick man back to healthWith ease and plenty. Else small aid is wealthFor daily gladness; once a man be doneWith hunger, rich and poor are all as one.
The law demands good works and uses its terror--rejection, shame, fear of punishment, unanswered prayer, personal tragedy, etc.--as motivation. Here performance is a necessity to secure the blessings and avoid the curses. Grace, on the other hand, allows us to serve on a different basis--not from fear but on the basis of love and gratitude, from appreciation and gladness for blessings freely given and freely received.
We find greatest joy, not in getting, but in expressing what we are...Men do not really live for honors or for pay their gladness is not the taking and holding, but in doing, the striving, the building, the living. It is a higher joy to teach than to be taught. It is good to get justice, but better to do it fun to have things but more to make them. The happy man is he who lives the life of love, not for the honors it may bring, but for the life itself.
Life's simplest things are love, and kindly friends, Nature's sweet charm of earth and sea and sky gladness of soul that with right living blends -- home's dear content, so cheap that all may buy.
Surely your gladness need not be the less for the thought that you will one day see a brighter dawn than this - when lovelier sights will meet your eyes than any waving trees or rippling waters - when angel-hands shall undraw your curtains, and sweeter tones than ever loving Mother breathed shall wake you to a new and glorious day - and when all the sadness, and the sin, that darkened life on this little earth, shall be forgotten like the dreams of a night that is past!
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