gladden
verb (used with object)
to make glad.
is gladdening
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present progressiveof gladden (3rd person singular).present progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
Example Sentences
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It is torture to the diseased eye; it is gladdening to the sound one.
From Expositions of Holy Scripture St. John Chapters I to XIV by Alexander Maclaren
It is gladdening to remember that, in its utmost nobleness, the very temper which has been thought most averse to it, the Protestant temper of self-dependence and inquiry, were expressed in every case.
From Health and Education by Charles Kingsley
On the religious development of the last thirty years I can find but little that is gladdening, to myself, at any rate, to say.
From A Writer's Recollections — Volume 2 by Mrs. Humphry Ward
O sweet in the sheen of thy raiment, The sight of thy beauty is gladdening!
From The Life and Death of Cormac the Skald by W. G. (William Gershom) Collingwood
It is gladdening to find, in such a student, one of the children of light.
From Retrospection and Introspection by Mary Baker Eddy
