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Jul 26, 2007

This week's theme
Unusual words used in famous quotations

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gladsome

adjective: Causing or showing joy.

[From Old English gloed. Ultimately from the Indo-European root ghel- (to shine) that is also the source of words such as yellow, gold, glimmer, glimpse, glass, arsenic, melancholy, and cholera.]

"The gladsome light of Jurisprudence."
Edward Coke; The First Part of the Institutes of the Laws of England; 1628; quoted in The Yale Book of Quotations.

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