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gleeful, a.|ˈgliːfʊl|
[f. glee n. + -ful.]
Full of glee; possessed by or manifesting a feeling of glee.
1586Warner Alb. Eng. iv. xx. (1589) L 3 a, Nor lackes he gleeful tales to tell, whil'st that the Bole doth trot. 1588Shakes. Tit. A. ii. iii. 11 Wherefore look'st thou sad, When euery thing doth make a Gleefull boast? 1594Carew Tasso (1881) 96 The wylie wench them makes her gleefull game. 1736W. Thompson Epithal. Roy. Nupt. viii, Deign to receive the Nation's publick Voice..who gleeful stand..and thus express their Joys: In Peals of loud Acclaim, and Mirth's confused Noise. 1863Geo. Eliot Romola iii. xxiii, [Her] ardour..was doubly strengthened by the gleeful triumph she saw in hard and coarse faces. 1886J. K. Jerome Idle Thoughts 25 The Chinee, gleeful at the length of his pigtail.
Hence ˈgleefully adv., in a gleeful manner; with glee.
1862Lytton Str. Story II. 8 He would be led on to boast gleefully of thoughts which the most cynical of criminals..would shrink from owning. 1873Ouida Pascarèl I. 9 They wore it..grinning gleefully from ear to ear. 1890‘L. Falconer’ Mlle. Ixe (1891) 130 The children plunged gleefully into the copse.
Add: ˈgleefulness n., the quality or state of being gleeful.
1934Webster, Gleefulness. 1981N.Y. Times 25 Jan. vi. 29/2 The man who is bringing us this bad news is also giving the lie to it with a vigor, a quiet gleefulness and a mastery of his craft. |