Glorify
['glɔːrɪfaɪ] or ['ɡlɔrɪfaɪ]
Definition
(verb.) bestow glory upon; 'The victory over the enemy glorified the Republic'.
(verb.) cause to seem more splendid; 'You are glorifying a rather mediocre building'.
Checked by Delores--From WordNet
Definition
(v. t.) To make glorious by bestowing glory upon; to confer honor and distinction upon; to elevate to power or happiness, or to celestial glory.
(v. t.) To make glorious in thought or with the heart, by ascribing glory to; to asknowledge the excellence of; to render homage to; to magnify in worship; to adore.
Typist: Ralph
Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. [1]. Extol, magnify, bless, honor greatly, praise highly, give glory to.[2]. Brighten, make bright, add lustre to.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Exalt, honor, elevate, laud, praise, signalize, magnify, aggrandize, adore,panegyrize, extol
ANT:Depress, debase, abuse, censure, degrade, decry, abase, defame
Editor: Lorna
Definition
v.t. to make glorious: to honour: to exalt to glory or happiness: to ascribe honour to to worship:—pa.p. glō′rified.—n. Glorificā′tion.
Editor: Shelton
Examples
- Yes, my boy, these were all done prematurely before my biographer had come to glorify me. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- People glorify all sorts of bravery except the bravery they might show on behalf of their nearest neighbors. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- People come here from all parts of the world, and glorify this masterpiece. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- 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.
- To insist that mind is originally passive and empty was one way of glorifying the possibilities of education. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- More than any other fetish it has ruined our sense of political values by glorifying the pharisee with his vain cruelty to individuals and his unfounded approval of himself. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Who glorifies him? Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
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