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glorify

[glawr-uh-fahy, glohr-]

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verb (used with object), -fied, -fy·ing.

to cause to be or treat as being more splendid, excellent, etc., than would normally be considered.

to honor with praise, admiration, or worship; extol.

to make glorious; invest with glory.

to praise the glory of (God), especially as an act of worship.

Origin:
1300–50; Middle English < Old French glorifier < Late Latin glōrificāre. See glory, -fy

Related forms

glo·ri·fi·a·ble, adjective

glo·ri·fi·er, noun

de·glo·ri·fy, verb (used with object), -fied, -fy·ing.

re·glo·ri·fy, verb (used with object), -fied, -fy·ing.

self-glo·ri·fied, adjective

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self-glo·ri·fy·ing, adjective

un·glo·ri·fied, adjective

un·glo·ri·fy·ing, adjective

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Synonyms
2. venerate, praise, worship, celebrate.

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Example Sentences

He is said to glorify a woman's body with intricate seams that deliberately focus on rounding the back of the hips.

But they were not commissioned by either of the women whose stories they glorify.

All that effort, all that time, all that money and all to glorify our continuing dependence on fossil fuels.

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He is said to glorify a woman's body with intricate seams that deliberately focus on rounding the back of the hips.

But they were not commissioned by either of the women whose stories they glorify.

All that effort, all that time, all that money and all to glorify our continuing dependence on fossil fuels.

Critics, including teachers, contended that the measure would glorify gun violence and lead to school shootings.

Just as the state media have done these past weeks, the parade will glorify the party's heroic moments.

He lives to glorify the human body and appall the bourgeoisie.

Even rich people glorify their roots and wish to make them have historical significance.

The results are here, in painterly images that neither glorify nor vilify their subjects.

There is no week that this newspaper would not glorify them.

In horticulture there are a handful of ardent souls who exist solely to glorify a certain species.

And the nation can longer afford to glorify its leaders blindly.

We certainly glorify and revere our founding fathers.

But the false front and indoor clutter did not obscure the ideal the original building was meant to glorify.

They glorify retirement and look down their noses at the labouring poor.

Moreover, popular culture has tended to glorify aberrant behavior in artists.

They look at everyday life subjects, but glorify them".

It counts the television programs which glorify violence in order to sell toys to our children.

He encouraged writers to show and glorify the way individuals can make a difference.

These are prints that glorify the subjects and give them a magical aura.

Guru, a former caseworker, is troubled by both violence in the streets and those who glorify it.

Both glorify consumerism and individual choice above all else, at the cost of undermining traditional mores and ways of life.

It does not simply extol or glorify its subject as monuments so often.

But his escape route from these horrors seems to glorify the medieval mind-set, leaving me somewhat terrified.

We trust that his motive is to show people the foolishness of violence rather than to glorify it.

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World English Dictionary

glorify (ˈɡlɔːrɪˌfaɪ)

—vb , -fies, -fying, -fied
1.	to make glorious
2.	to make more splendid; adorn
3.	to worship, exalt, or adore
4.	to extol
5.	to cause to seem more splendid or imposing than reality

'glorifiable

—*adj*

'glorifier

—n

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Easton

Bible Dictionary

Glorify definition

(1.) To make glorious, or cause so to appear (John 12:28; 13:31, 32; 17:4,5). (2.) Spoken of God to "shew forth his praise" (1 Cor. 6:20; 10:31).

Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary
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