gladful vs merry

gladful

adj
  • Full of gladness; happy; full of joy. 

merry

adj
  • Causing laughter, mirth, gladness, or delight. 

  • Festive and full of fun and laughter. 

  • Brisk 

  • drunk; tipsy 

  • Jolly and full of high spirits; happy. 

noun
  • An English wild cherry. 

How often have the words gladful and merry occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )