Meanings of most gladsome in English

This is really one of the most gladsome days of my life.

But Odin was the most sorrowful of all; for he knew, that, with Balder, the world had lost its most gladsome life.

Harps and fiddles played their wildest and most gladsome tunes, knights and ladies danced, and all went merry as a marriage bell.

Love may be the fairest gem which Society has filched from Nature; but what is motherhood save Nature in her most gladsome mood?

Passing the suspicious village constable, he penetrated even his callous heart with the most gladsome Christmas greeting he had heard in many a year.

Most gladsome sight of all, the Cupids plucked the hated fools' caps from their heads and cast them high in the air.