glory

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English

Etymology

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.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈɡlɔː.ɹi/
• (US, Canada) IPA^(key): /ˈɡlɔ.ɹi/, [ˈɡlo.ɹi]

• (General Australian, New Zealand) IPA^(key): /ˈɡloː.ɹi/
• (without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA^(key): /ˈɡlo(ː)ɹi/
• Rhymes: -ɔːɹi

Noun

glory (countable and uncountable, plural glories)

1. Great beauty and splendor.
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.
4. Worship or praise.
5. (meteorology, optics) An optical phenomenon, consisting of concentric rings and somewhat similar to a rainbow, caused by sunlight or moonlight interacting with the water droplets that compose mist or clouds, centered on the antisolar or antilunar point.

   Synonym: anticorona

6. Victory; success.
7. An emanation of light supposed to shine from beings that are specially holy. It is represented in art by rays of gold, or the like, proceeding from the head or body, or by a disk, or a mere line.
8. (theology) The manifestation of the presence of God as perceived by humans in Abrahamic religions.
9. (obsolete) Pride; boastfulness; arrogance.
10. Something glorious.

Synonyms

• (emanation of light proceeding from specially holy beings): halo
• praise
• worship
• fame
• honor
• honour

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Verb

glory (third-person singular simple present glories, present participle glorying, simple past and past participle gloried)

1. To exult with joy; to rejoice.
2. To boast; to be proud.
   • 1881, Revised Version, 2 Corinthians 7:14:

     For if in anything I have gloried to him on your behalf, I was not put to shame; but as we spake all things to you in truth, so our glorying also, which I made before Titus, was found to be truth.

3. (archaic, poetic) To shine radiantly.
   • 1859–85, Alfred Tennyson, Idylls of the King, "The Last Tournament":

     Down in a casement sat,

     A low sea-sunset glorying round her hair

     And glossy-throated grace, Isolt the Queen.

Translations

Middle English

Noun

glory

1. Alternative form of glorie