glory

Forms

1.Great beauty and splendor.
- One of the hidden glories of Victorian engineering is proper drains. Isolating a city’s effluent and shipping it away in underground sewers has probably saved more lives than any medical procedure except vaccination.
2.Honour, admiration, or distinction, accorded by common consent to a person or thing; high reputation; renown.
3.That quality in a person or thing which secures general praise or honour.
- Deeme it no gloire to swell in tyrannie.
4.Worship or praise.
- Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will toward men.

1.To exult with joy; to rejoice.
- When the passion is extreme, suffering may actually be gloried in, provided it be for the ideal cause, death may lose its sting, the grave its victory.
- He says he glories in what happened, and that good may be done indirectly; but I wish he would not so wear himself out now he is getting old, and would leave such pigs to their wallowing.
- In what the Apostle did glory?, He gloried in a Cross.. [T]o the Ear of a Galatian, it conveyed much the same Meaning, as if the Apostle had gloried in a Halter; gloried in the Gallows; gloried in a Gibbet.
2.To boast; to be proud.

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From Middle English glory, glorie, from Old French glorie (“glory”), from Latin glōria (“glory, fame, renown, praise, ambition, boasting”).

Doublet of gloria.

Displaced native Old English wuldor.