gladness

CEFRB1

/ˈɡlædnəs/

noun

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The rose and the thorn, and sorrow and gladness are linked together.
But sorrow that is couch'd in seeming gladness Is like that mirth fate turns to sudden sadness.

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Sits at B1 on the CEFR scale

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But sorrow that is couch'd in seeming gladness Is like that mirth fate turns to sudden sadness.
c. 1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Troylus and Cressida”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Is...
But as time, as time will, drew on, and Watt's period of service on the ground floor approached its term, then this wish and this fear, and so this sorrow and this gladness, like so many other wishes and fears, so many other sorrows and gladnesses, grew duller and duller and gradually ceased to be felt, at all.
1953, Samuel Beckett, Watt, [Paris]: Olympia Press, →OCLC

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From glad + -ness.