Glorified
['ɡlɔrɪfaɪd]
Definition
(imp. & p. p.) of Glorify
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Examples
- But other generations will arise, and ever and for ever will continue, to be made happier by our present acts, to be glorified by our valour. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- And they glorified God, saying, That a great prophet is risen up among us; and That God hath visited his people. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Phaidor has glorified you with her love, and you have spurned her. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- The bag is opened, and several quarts of tin money shower down upon the stage till it is quite glorified with the glitter. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- The little house ceased to be a glorified bower, but it became a home, and the young couple soon felt that it was a change for the better. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- The town meeting is an obviously respectable institution, glorified by all the reverence men give to the dead. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- We shall remember, always, how we saw majestic Gibraltar glorified with the rich coloring of a Spanish sunset and swimming in a sea of rainbows. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- During his walk home his most intelligible sensation was that his scheme had somehow become glorified. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- Andrea del Sarto glorified his princes in pictures that must save them for ever from the oblivion they merited, and they let him starve. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
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