gladsomeness

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The gladsomeness of life, the sunshine of smiles and laughter, is denied her.

From English Literature Its History and Its Significance for the Life of the English Speaking World by Long, William Joseph

You sink down in a flowery spot, on the borders of sleep and wakefulness, while your thoughts rise before you in pictures, all disconnected, yet all assimilated by a pervading gladsomeness and beauty.

From The Haunted Mind (From "Twice Told Tales") by Hawthorne, Nathaniel

Wetzel alone did not seem infected by the spirit of gladsomeness which pervaded.

From Betty Zane by Grey, Zane

Withal a man, despite his boisterous gladsomeness and his overflowing joy in what the present has to offer, in whom there is nothing common, nothing low.

From The Persian Literature, Comprising The Shah Nameh, The Rubaiyat, The Divan, and The Gulistan, Volume 1 by Gottheil, Richard James Horatio

It is this that makes Háfiz almost the only poet of unadulterated gladsomeness that the world has ever known.

From The Persian Literature, Comprising The Shah Nameh, The Rubaiyat, The Divan, and The Gulistan, Volume 1 by Gottheil, Richard James Horatio