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verb (used with object)
- to make glad.
verb (used without object)
- Obsolete. to be glad.
verb
- to make or become glad and joyful
c.1300, “to be glad;” 1550s, “to make glad;” see glad + -en (1). Earlier in both senses was simply glad (v.), from Old English gladian, Mercian gleadian “be glad, make glad.”