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▪ I. glorying, vbl. n.|ˈglɔərɪɪŋ| [f. glory v. + -ing1.] The action of the vb. glory.
1382Wyclif 1 Cor. v. 6 Ȝoure gloriynge is not good. 1588A. King tr. Canisius' Catech. 128 Of defense of sin [proceeds] gloiring thairin, of gloiring dreedfull damnation. 1651Hobbes Leviath. i. vi. 27 Joy, arising from imagination of a man's own power and ability..is called Glorying. 1756Burke Subl. & B. i. xvii, Hence proceeds what Longinus has observed of that glorying and sense of inward greatness, that always fills the reader of such passages in poets and orators as are sublime. 1836Mrs. Browning Poet's Vow iii. ii, The self-poised God may dwell alone With inward glorying. ▪ II. glorying, ppl. a.|ˈglɔərɪɪŋ| [f. glory v. + -ing2.] That glories. Hence ˈgloryingly adv., in a glorying manner.
1851E. B. Elliott Horæ Apocal. (1862) IV. 33 Sustaining his Church upon the seven hills..and gloryingly up-bearing and exhibiting her. 1865G. Meredith Rhoda Fleming xvii. (1890) 122 No posterity of his would point them out gloryingly. |