gladship

Middle English

Etymology

Anglo-Saxon glædscipe.

Noun

gladship

1. gladness
   • c. 1386–1390, John Gower, edited by Reinhold Pauli, Confessio Amantis of John Gower: Edited and Collated with the Best Manuscripts, volume (please specify |volume=I, II, or III), London: Bell and Daldy […], published 1857, →OCLC:

     Me thenketh is ay the lenger the ferre
     That bringeth my gladship out of erre

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Further reading

• “gladship”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.