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Definition of glory in English: glorynounPlural glories ˈɡlɔːriˈɡlɔri mass noun1High renown or honour won by notable achievements. to fight and die for the glory of one's nation Example sentencesExamples - Now its up to the bunch of players to regain the lost Olympic glory.
- It will be nice to see a good attendance showing support for this bunch of young fellows who have brought honour and glory to their parishes.
- He also delighted in seeing the girls team achieve such honour and glory over the past five years.
- If it's about glory, style and achievement than the current regime is a massive failure.
- Moreover, his character suggests that he was neither a power monger, nor a glory seeker.
- One can't help but suspect that the motive behind the Italian researcher's efforts is rooted in gaining glory and renown rather than altruism.
- If he survived this he would bring greater glory to himself.
- His greatest wish would be that they would carry the torch in the years ahead and lead his club to further honour and glory.
- For club and county it is about bringing honour and glory to one's native heath, family, friends and neighbours and the people you were brought up with.
- Prisons, for all their horrors, were about loyalty to the cause, about honour, about glory.
- Newspapers said she had showered her motherland with glory and honour, and dignitaries clamoured for her presence.
- They came from two proud rival cities, with honour, glory and passion at stake.
- This terrifying vision fits perfectly well with the desire for honour and glory that the neo-conservative gentlemen covet.
- The fact that they probably will is to be a short-lived glory.
- This group of young lads are to be congratulated on bringing honour and glory to their parishes.
- We shall fight not for glory or honour, but for the very sovereignty of our kingdom!
- The heroic deeds of this brave and noble Irishman have brought honour and glory to his native land.
- The honour and glory of the colours were now fore-most in the players mind.
- On one hand, everyone had a chance for a little glory.
- Straussians are believers in glory and honour - pre-modern values.
Synonyms renown, fame, prestige, honour, distinction, kudos, eminence, pre-eminence, acclaim, acclamation, celebrity, praise, accolades, laurels, recognition, note, notability, credit, repute, reputation, name, illustriousness, lustre informal bouquets rare laudation 2Magnificence or great beauty. the train has been restored to all its former glory Example sentencesExamples - It is the original Atlantic Coastline station and has been restored to its original beauty and glory.
- Bright blues, reds and yellows streak the canvas depicting beauty in all its glory.
- Experts predict that around $2 million will be needed to restore this majestic lady to her former glory.
- The great Chinese traveller Huien Tsang visited this place and wrote of its glory and beauty.
- The eventual aim is to restore Swindon's stately home to its former Georgian glory.
- The owners of the building that houses the main Post Office want to spend £100,000 on restoring the town centre landmark to its former glory.
- The fountain, donated to the town in 1882 by textile giant George Courtauld, has been dismantled and taken away for renovation to be reinstated later in its former glory.
- This system has been found to be the most suited for restoring to the art forms their former glory, by enabling revivals, innovations and creative elaboration.
- The committee can feel proud of their efforts and this award is due recognition for the amount of hard work and time that was invested in restoring the Shrine to it's former glory so to speak.
- Work has begun to return a Scarborough beauty spot to its former glory with a £100,000 facelift by engineers.
- But when the sports teams fled and the hi-tech craze bottomed out taking so many lives with it, what was left was the shell of former economic glory.
- If Lottery backing is approved, a five-year project will see the grounds of the Georgian stately home restored to their former glory.
- The fabric of the century-old castle, built for a wealthy English industrialist, is crumbling and more than £5m needs to be spent to restore it to its former glory.
- After the recent copious rains, it has regained its past glory and filled up almost to the brim.
- It is said that, Poseidon, the god of the seas, gave the sunken civilisation the power to exist and flourish beneath the sea, until it could be returned to its former glory.
- If we are successful, we can begin to restore this once majestic ancient woodland to its former glory.
- It has lost its Royal status but not his beauty and glory.
- Retaining its magnificence and glory, Surakarta Keraton, along with the Mangkunegaran Fort, has continued to serve as a symbol of Javanese culture.
- We work very hard to restore this magnificent building to its former glory and this is a very obvious setback.
- And, in its bizarre, magnificent glory, it's a startling and exciting sight.
Synonyms magnificence, splendour, resplendence, grandeur, majesty, greatness, impressiveness, gloriousness, nobility, pomp, stateliness, sumptuousness, opulence, beauty, elegance, brilliance, gorgeousness, splendidness - 2.1often gloriescount noun A thing that is beautiful, impressive, or worthy of praise.
Example sentencesExamples - This is best secured by enabling people to appreciate the glories of our wildlife at first hand.
- Gutted architectural glories, their frescoes scraped back to the stone, stable horses.
- Her compositions were childish compared to the glories of baroque counterpoint.
- What has a city to offer, even the fading beauty of Kyoto, in comparison to such glories?
- He is certainly not the first celebrity chef to traipse over the border to celebrate the glories of Scottish food.
- The artist's light fantastic works are shining examples of the glories of glass.
- Worshippers claimed that it transported them back to the mystical glories of the candlelit cathedral.
- To see the glories of the ancient world, you need to visit the Egyptian Museum in the centre of Cairo.
- Perhaps too many feel daunted by the new charging system and forgo the chance to experience the glories of the building.
- The film is full of sun-drenched vineyards and the glories of the grape.
- One of the glories about the Lebanon, as we have discovered, is that you can get a taxi anywhere - as the country is so small and cheap.
- One of the glories of this great nation is that we have this kind of choice to make.
- It must have been difficult for him to turn his back on the glories of Granada.
- Driving north from Fort William, then west from Invergarry, the trip takes you through the glories of Glen Shiel.
- The cathedral has had a choir since 1296 and music remains one of its glories.
- It all adds up to a real treasure trove, and a fine summary of the glories of European cinema.
- Why not prepare for the heat and import some of the other glories of a Continental summer?
- One of the glories of cinema is its great aesthetic and cultural diversity.
Synonyms wonder, beauty, delight, wonderful thing, glorious thing, marvel, phenomenon sight, spectacle - 2.2 The splendour and bliss of heaven.
images of Christ in glory Example sentencesExamples - Every desire is either a devout or a distorted enticement to the glory of heaven.
- To give too much attention to the world was to overlook part of the glory that lay in Heaven.
- They experience spiritual bliss and divine glory according to their individual spiritual capacities.
- Hymns, praising the glories of heaven and the peace of all God's creatures in his halls.
- This is an example of the ways in which Satan and his followers attempt to mimic the glory and splendor of heaven in hell.
- The only glory of which he has spoken will come in heaven, after his resurrection.
- The incentive of gaining glory and escaping hell - of desiring joy in heaven - is a perfectly valid and scriptural motivation.
- As Jesus prays, heaven's glory opens and God's Spirit-dove descends upon him.
- For example, Christians generally believe that you will live in sedate glory alongside the Lord Almighty and his holy entourage in heaven.
- Christ comes in glory to make all creation whole and safe.
- We give thanks for those whose gifts and labours have helped rebuild this holy place and to make it again an image of the glory of heaven.
- One side showed the resurrected Christ in full glory.
- As God's children, we are destined for nothing less than the glory of heaven.
- The return of Christ in power and glory is the greatest expected future event.
- All we can know is that we are poor lost sinners and Jesus Christ came from glory to save such.
- An infinite world of heavenly glory awaits us every time we lift our hearts up to heaven to worship Jesus and receive his love.
Synonyms blessedness, blessing, benediction, heaven, paradise, heavenly joy, divine happiness, supreme happiness, divine rapture, beatitude, saintliness, sainthood
3Praise, worship, and thanksgiving offered to a deity. Example sentencesExamples - There is not one thing that does not give glory to Him while praising and thanking Him.
- We are to give glory to God through worship, serving others, and in the very way in which we live our lives.
- Adam and Eve were not only to glorify God in behavior, but they were to offer intelligent glory and praise to God.
- To Him all praise, glory, and honour is forever due.
- All thanks and praise, glory and honour, to yours at all times in every place.
- Then let us live to your praise and glory, for the sake of the good news of Jesus Christ.
- Please pray for us as we seek God's will - to his praise and glory through the Lord Jesus Christ.
- All right, so the credit and the glory and the praise always belong to God.
- Above all, they bring most glory to God in our worship and service of Him.
- The credit, the praise, the glory, and the thanks always go to God.
- I will not give my glory to another or my praise to idols.
- To the One, Merciful God be praise and glory for ever.
- The Lord is one and his name is one; name, glory and praise!
- ‘These images inspire and challenge us to become fully human, which is the best way we can give honour and glory to God’.
- Only Jesus could subsequently heal me of this, and to Him goes all glory and honor and praise!
- Blessing and glory and wisdom and thanksgiving and honor and power and might be to our God forever and ever!
- Let us boldly proclaim and share the gospel - to the praise and glory of God alone.
- His many friends are rejoiced at the happy fruition of his vocation, and will wish him many long years in the sacred ministry to work for the honour and glory of God.
Synonyms praise, worship, glorification, adoration, veneration, honour, reverence, exaltation, extolment, homage, tribute, thanksgiving, thanks, blessing rare laudation, magnification 4count noun A luminous ring or halo, especially as depicted around the head of Christ or a saint. Example sentencesExamples - Sun is the shield of the clouds, and a shining glory, and the life long sorrow of ice.
- Colorado Plateau sandstone is nearly totemic in texture and color: voluptuously carved by wind and water, bared to a glory of sunset colors.
- Diffusing glory with your rays, you have scaled the shining realm of heaven.
- Our country, our homes and even our lives are all things of shadow which will one day disappear in the light of the glory of Jesus Christ.
- Contemplation of Christ's radiant glory could be taken in such a way as to point away from the suffering Christ, but this need not be so.
- Paul then became the final witness of the resurrected Christ by seeing his glory.
- Seen from space a sunrise takes on a glory all of its own, the dark shield burning like a crescent of fire-gold as the sun rose from beyond the curve of the horizon.
- Your eyes will start shining with joy; your face will have a gleam, a glory.
- The sun set in a glory, and twilight arrived with gracefully gleaming stars, and a full golden moon on the horizon.
verbglories ˈɡlɔːriˈɡlɔri [no object]glory in1Take great pride or pleasure in. they gloried in their independence Example sentencesExamples - Political relics of the 70s are fomenting a ‘stop the tour’ wave of hysteria, glorying in the echoes of their salad days.
- Citizens of a newly formed Protestant nation that gloried in its hard won independence from Catholic Europe, they painted not for rich nobles, but for the common man.
- It will leave you celebrating our national character and glorying in the beauty and oddness of the human spirit.
- Others take pride in an array of quality cookware, or glory in the grunt under the bonnet.
- In Johnson's England ambitious politicians had been cloaking themselves in patriotism since the 1730s, and George III himself had begun his reign glorying in the name of Britain.
- Yet I'm feeling sad for all those who cannot glory in the beauty of Spring because their hearts are filled with despair, hatred and revenge.
Synonyms take great pleasure in, exult in, rejoice in, delight in, revel in relish, savour, greatly enjoy take great pride in, preen oneself on, congratulate oneself on, be proud of boast about, crow about, gloat about informal get a kick out of, get a thrill out of archaic plume oneself on, pique oneself on - 1.1 Exult in unpleasantly or boastfully.
readers tended to defend their paper or even to glory in its bias Example sentencesExamples - She relished combat and gloried in opposition.
- And not that we should be glorying in that; we shouldn't.
- There is nothing that they want or are asking for; they just are glorying in their destructive power.
- Black-eyed and skeletal, she seemed to be almost glorying in her predicament.
- He is politically incorrect, and glories in it with ecstatic gloat.
Synonyms rejoice at, rejoice in, take delight in, find pleasure in, take pleasure in, find satisfaction in, take satisfaction in, feel satisfaction at, find joy in, enjoy, appreciate, revel in, glory in, bask in, delight in, relish, savour, luxuriate in, wallow in
Phrases 1Expressing enthusiastic piety. - 1.1informal Used as an exclamation of surprise or delight.
- 1.2as noun(especially in Roman Catholic use) the doxology beginning ‘Glory be to the Father’.
Example sentencesExamples - She still knows how to pray to her Father in heaven because the Our Father is written on her heart. Likewise, the Hail Mary and the Glory Be.
- The Glory be was prescribed at the end of Psalms by the time of St. Benedict to emphasize that the object of all praise is the Trinity.
- Say a Hail Mary for each of the following smaller beads, and end the decade with the Glory Be.
an uproar over a preacher, since gone to glory the boat was blown to glory
informal In a state of extreme joy or exaltation. he was in his glory and brimming with optimism Example sentencesExamples - I was still too busy relishing in my glory to notice he was seriously in trouble.
- But to take him out and talk about things and show him different trees and the pool and there, I'm in my glory.
- He should sit back and think about his career - he should bask in his glory.
- Even when I win, I really don't look at photos and bask in my glory and say, ‘Wow, I look great.’
- The wheels of time rolled back on the streets of the Capital on Sunday as magnificent motorcars of yesteryears basked in their glory at the annual Statesman Vintage and Classic Car Rally.
- Geneva had never felt so much like a queen and she basked in her glory.
- And we denizens of the capital would be in our glory.
- Ideologues are in their glory denouncing ‘corporate greed’ among drug companies.
- They were fresh, still stinging in their glory and bleeding from the skin deep slits.
- Just a glimmer of hope, when India could have basked in his glory.
- I've broken a lot of records and standards and I feel happy about that - now I'm trying to bask in my glory.
- But until then the Samurai are happy to bask in their glory.
- He was in his glory now, the man with all the answers.
- She filled out the return form and dropped it in the mailbox, then rushed back inside to bask in her glory.
- Find a partner who can dance well, then just bask in her glory.
- Not that gloating or reveling in his glory would have done him much good.
- Beware of arrogance and vanity when you bask in your glory.
Origin Middle English: from Old French glorie, from Latin gloria. Rhymes cacciatore, Corey, dory, Florey, flory, furore, gory, hoary, hunky-dory, lory, Maury, monsignori, Montessori, multistorey, Pori, Rory, satori, saury, storey, story, Tory, vainglory Definition of glory in US English: glorynounˈɡlôrēˈɡlɔri 1High renown or honor won by notable achievements. to fight and die for the glory of one's nation Example sentencesExamples - This terrifying vision fits perfectly well with the desire for honour and glory that the neo-conservative gentlemen covet.
- It will be nice to see a good attendance showing support for this bunch of young fellows who have brought honour and glory to their parishes.
- Prisons, for all their horrors, were about loyalty to the cause, about honour, about glory.
- The honour and glory of the colours were now fore-most in the players mind.
- This group of young lads are to be congratulated on bringing honour and glory to their parishes.
- For club and county it is about bringing honour and glory to one's native heath, family, friends and neighbours and the people you were brought up with.
- One can't help but suspect that the motive behind the Italian researcher's efforts is rooted in gaining glory and renown rather than altruism.
- His greatest wish would be that they would carry the torch in the years ahead and lead his club to further honour and glory.
- Moreover, his character suggests that he was neither a power monger, nor a glory seeker.
- The heroic deeds of this brave and noble Irishman have brought honour and glory to his native land.
- On one hand, everyone had a chance for a little glory.
- Straussians are believers in glory and honour - pre-modern values.
- He also delighted in seeing the girls team achieve such honour and glory over the past five years.
- Now its up to the bunch of players to regain the lost Olympic glory.
- If he survived this he would bring greater glory to himself.
- They came from two proud rival cities, with honour, glory and passion at stake.
- The fact that they probably will is to be a short-lived glory.
- We shall fight not for glory or honour, but for the very sovereignty of our kingdom!
- Newspapers said she had showered her motherland with glory and honour, and dignitaries clamoured for her presence.
- If it's about glory, style and achievement than the current regime is a massive failure.
Synonyms renown, fame, prestige, honour, distinction, kudos, eminence, pre-eminence, acclaim, acclamation, celebrity, praise, accolades, laurels, recognition, note, notability, credit, repute, reputation, name, illustriousness, lustre 2Magnificence or great beauty. the train has been restored to all its former glory Example sentencesExamples - If we are successful, we can begin to restore this once majestic ancient woodland to its former glory.
- It has lost its Royal status but not his beauty and glory.
- If Lottery backing is approved, a five-year project will see the grounds of the Georgian stately home restored to their former glory.
- And, in its bizarre, magnificent glory, it's a startling and exciting sight.
- It is the original Atlantic Coastline station and has been restored to its original beauty and glory.
- But when the sports teams fled and the hi-tech craze bottomed out taking so many lives with it, what was left was the shell of former economic glory.
- The eventual aim is to restore Swindon's stately home to its former Georgian glory.
- Work has begun to return a Scarborough beauty spot to its former glory with a £100,000 facelift by engineers.
- The fountain, donated to the town in 1882 by textile giant George Courtauld, has been dismantled and taken away for renovation to be reinstated later in its former glory.
- The owners of the building that houses the main Post Office want to spend £100,000 on restoring the town centre landmark to its former glory.
- Bright blues, reds and yellows streak the canvas depicting beauty in all its glory.
- The great Chinese traveller Huien Tsang visited this place and wrote of its glory and beauty.
- We work very hard to restore this magnificent building to its former glory and this is a very obvious setback.
- Retaining its magnificence and glory, Surakarta Keraton, along with the Mangkunegaran Fort, has continued to serve as a symbol of Javanese culture.
- Experts predict that around $2 million will be needed to restore this majestic lady to her former glory.
- This system has been found to be the most suited for restoring to the art forms their former glory, by enabling revivals, innovations and creative elaboration.
- After the recent copious rains, it has regained its past glory and filled up almost to the brim.
- The fabric of the century-old castle, built for a wealthy English industrialist, is crumbling and more than £5m needs to be spent to restore it to its former glory.
- The committee can feel proud of their efforts and this award is due recognition for the amount of hard work and time that was invested in restoring the Shrine to it's former glory so to speak.
- It is said that, Poseidon, the god of the seas, gave the sunken civilisation the power to exist and flourish beneath the sea, until it could be returned to its former glory.
Synonyms magnificence, splendour, resplendence, grandeur, majesty, greatness, impressiveness, gloriousness, nobility, pomp, stateliness, sumptuousness, opulence, beauty, elegance, brilliance, gorgeousness, splendidness wonder, beauty, delight, wonderful thing, glorious thing, marvel, phenomenon - 2.1often glories A thing that is beautiful or distinctive; a special cause for pride, respect, or delight.
Example sentencesExamples - Her compositions were childish compared to the glories of baroque counterpoint.
- He is certainly not the first celebrity chef to traipse over the border to celebrate the glories of Scottish food.
- The artist's light fantastic works are shining examples of the glories of glass.
- Gutted architectural glories, their frescoes scraped back to the stone, stable horses.
- Worshippers claimed that it transported them back to the mystical glories of the candlelit cathedral.
- It all adds up to a real treasure trove, and a fine summary of the glories of European cinema.
- It must have been difficult for him to turn his back on the glories of Granada.
- One of the glories about the Lebanon, as we have discovered, is that you can get a taxi anywhere - as the country is so small and cheap.
- The cathedral has had a choir since 1296 and music remains one of its glories.
- The film is full of sun-drenched vineyards and the glories of the grape.
- Driving north from Fort William, then west from Invergarry, the trip takes you through the glories of Glen Shiel.
- Why not prepare for the heat and import some of the other glories of a Continental summer?
- One of the glories of cinema is its great aesthetic and cultural diversity.
- Perhaps too many feel daunted by the new charging system and forgo the chance to experience the glories of the building.
- To see the glories of the ancient world, you need to visit the Egyptian Museum in the centre of Cairo.
- One of the glories of this great nation is that we have this kind of choice to make.
- What has a city to offer, even the fading beauty of Kyoto, in comparison to such glories?
- This is best secured by enabling people to appreciate the glories of our wildlife at first hand.
Synonyms wonder, beauty, delight, wonderful thing, glorious thing, marvel, phenomenon - 2.2 The splendor and bliss of heaven.
Example sentencesExamples - As Jesus prays, heaven's glory opens and God's Spirit-dove descends upon him.
- The incentive of gaining glory and escaping hell - of desiring joy in heaven - is a perfectly valid and scriptural motivation.
- Christ comes in glory to make all creation whole and safe.
- An infinite world of heavenly glory awaits us every time we lift our hearts up to heaven to worship Jesus and receive his love.
- Every desire is either a devout or a distorted enticement to the glory of heaven.
- The return of Christ in power and glory is the greatest expected future event.
- Hymns, praising the glories of heaven and the peace of all God's creatures in his halls.
- They experience spiritual bliss and divine glory according to their individual spiritual capacities.
- One side showed the resurrected Christ in full glory.
- The only glory of which he has spoken will come in heaven, after his resurrection.
- As God's children, we are destined for nothing less than the glory of heaven.
- This is an example of the ways in which Satan and his followers attempt to mimic the glory and splendor of heaven in hell.
- For example, Christians generally believe that you will live in sedate glory alongside the Lord Almighty and his holy entourage in heaven.
- We give thanks for those whose gifts and labours have helped rebuild this holy place and to make it again an image of the glory of heaven.
- To give too much attention to the world was to overlook part of the glory that lay in Heaven.
- All we can know is that we are poor lost sinners and Jesus Christ came from glory to save such.
Synonyms blessedness, blessing, benediction, heaven, paradise, heavenly joy, divine happiness, supreme happiness, divine rapture, beatitude, saintliness, sainthood
3Praise, worship, and thanksgiving offered to a deity. Example sentencesExamples - Let us boldly proclaim and share the gospel - to the praise and glory of God alone.
- We are to give glory to God through worship, serving others, and in the very way in which we live our lives.
- To the One, Merciful God be praise and glory for ever.
- All right, so the credit and the glory and the praise always belong to God.
- Blessing and glory and wisdom and thanksgiving and honor and power and might be to our God forever and ever!
- Then let us live to your praise and glory, for the sake of the good news of Jesus Christ.
- ‘These images inspire and challenge us to become fully human, which is the best way we can give honour and glory to God’.
- All thanks and praise, glory and honour, to yours at all times in every place.
- Please pray for us as we seek God's will - to his praise and glory through the Lord Jesus Christ.
- Above all, they bring most glory to God in our worship and service of Him.
- To Him all praise, glory, and honour is forever due.
- I will not give my glory to another or my praise to idols.
- Adam and Eve were not only to glorify God in behavior, but they were to offer intelligent glory and praise to God.
- The credit, the praise, the glory, and the thanks always go to God.
- His many friends are rejoiced at the happy fruition of his vocation, and will wish him many long years in the sacred ministry to work for the honour and glory of God.
- There is not one thing that does not give glory to Him while praising and thanking Him.
- Only Jesus could subsequently heal me of this, and to Him goes all glory and honor and praise!
- The Lord is one and his name is one; name, glory and praise!
Synonyms praise, worship, glorification, adoration, veneration, honour, reverence, exaltation, extolment, homage, tribute, thanksgiving, thanks, blessing 4A luminous ring or halo, especially as depicted around the head of Jesus Christ or a saint. Example sentencesExamples - Diffusing glory with your rays, you have scaled the shining realm of heaven.
- Contemplation of Christ's radiant glory could be taken in such a way as to point away from the suffering Christ, but this need not be so.
- Your eyes will start shining with joy; your face will have a gleam, a glory.
- Colorado Plateau sandstone is nearly totemic in texture and color: voluptuously carved by wind and water, bared to a glory of sunset colors.
- Our country, our homes and even our lives are all things of shadow which will one day disappear in the light of the glory of Jesus Christ.
- Paul then became the final witness of the resurrected Christ by seeing his glory.
- The sun set in a glory, and twilight arrived with gracefully gleaming stars, and a full golden moon on the horizon.
- Seen from space a sunrise takes on a glory all of its own, the dark shield burning like a crescent of fire-gold as the sun rose from beyond the curve of the horizon.
- Sun is the shield of the clouds, and a shining glory, and the life long sorrow of ice.
verbˈɡlôrēˈɡlɔri [no object]glory in1Take great pride or pleasure in. they were individuals who gloried in their independence Example sentencesExamples - Yet I'm feeling sad for all those who cannot glory in the beauty of Spring because their hearts are filled with despair, hatred and revenge.
- In Johnson's England ambitious politicians had been cloaking themselves in patriotism since the 1730s, and George III himself had begun his reign glorying in the name of Britain.
- Citizens of a newly formed Protestant nation that gloried in its hard won independence from Catholic Europe, they painted not for rich nobles, but for the common man.
- Political relics of the 70s are fomenting a ‘stop the tour’ wave of hysteria, glorying in the echoes of their salad days.
- It will leave you celebrating our national character and glorying in the beauty and oddness of the human spirit.
- Others take pride in an array of quality cookware, or glory in the grunt under the bonnet.
Synonyms take great pleasure in, exult in, rejoice in, delight in, revel in - 1.1 Exult in unpleasantly or boastfully.
readers tended to defend their paper or even to glory in its bias Example sentencesExamples - And not that we should be glorying in that; we shouldn't.
- There is nothing that they want or are asking for; they just are glorying in their destructive power.
- Black-eyed and skeletal, she seemed to be almost glorying in her predicament.
- He is politically incorrect, and glories in it with ecstatic gloat.
- She relished combat and gloried in opposition.
Synonyms rejoice at, rejoice in, take delight in, find pleasure in, take pleasure in, find satisfaction in, take satisfaction in, feel satisfaction at, find joy in, enjoy, appreciate, revel in, glory in, bask in, delight in, relish, savour, luxuriate in, wallow in
Phrases 1Expressing enthusiastic piety. - 1.1informal Used as an exclamation of surprise or delight.
- 1.2as noun(especially in Roman Catholic use) the doxology beginning “Glory be to the Father.”.
Example sentencesExamples - The Glory be was prescribed at the end of Psalms by the time of St. Benedict to emphasize that the object of all praise is the Trinity.
- Say a Hail Mary for each of the following smaller beads, and end the decade with the Glory Be.
- She still knows how to pray to her Father in heaven because the Our Father is written on her heart. Likewise, the Hail Mary and the Glory Be.
informal In a state of extreme joy or exaltation. Example sentencesExamples - But to take him out and talk about things and show him different trees and the pool and there, I'm in my glory.
- He was in his glory now, the man with all the answers.
- I was still too busy relishing in my glory to notice he was seriously in trouble.
- Not that gloating or reveling in his glory would have done him much good.
- Find a partner who can dance well, then just bask in her glory.
- Beware of arrogance and vanity when you bask in your glory.
- The wheels of time rolled back on the streets of the Capital on Sunday as magnificent motorcars of yesteryears basked in their glory at the annual Statesman Vintage and Classic Car Rally.
- Just a glimmer of hope, when India could have basked in his glory.
- But until then the Samurai are happy to bask in their glory.
- Ideologues are in their glory denouncing ‘corporate greed’ among drug companies.
- They were fresh, still stinging in their glory and bleeding from the skin deep slits.
- And we denizens of the capital would be in our glory.
- He should sit back and think about his career - he should bask in his glory.
- Geneva had never felt so much like a queen and she basked in her glory.
- Even when I win, I really don't look at photos and bask in my glory and say, ‘Wow, I look great.’
- She filled out the return form and dropped it in the mailbox, then rushed back inside to bask in her glory.
- I've broken a lot of records and standards and I feel happy about that - now I'm trying to bask in my glory.
Example sentencesExamples - Some Christians prefer to call this Final Preservation, since it is God who keeps us through faith until we go to glory.
- Her farewell on that last night was prescient in more ways than one: ‘Goodbye, my friends, I go to glory!’
- Friends of mine of the same age are retiring - some have gone to glory.
- He has convinced them that they go to glory when, in fact, they have signed up for a life of privation, stress and certain death.
Origin Middle English: from Old French glorie, from Latin gloria. |