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Webster 1913 Edition

Glory

Glo′ry

(glō′ry̆; 111)
,
Noun.
[OE.
glorie
, OF.
glorie
,
gloire
, F.
gloire
, fr. L.
gloria
; prob. akin to Gr.
κλέος
, Skr.
çravas
glory, praise,
çru
to hear. See
Loud
.]
1.
Praise, honor, admiration, or distinction, accorded by common consent to a person or thing; high reputation; honorable fame; renown.
Glory
to God in the highest.
Luke ii. 14.
Spread his
glory
through all countries wide.
Spenser.
2.
That quality in a person or thing which secures general praise or honor; that which brings or gives renown; an object of pride or boast; the occasion of praise; excellency; brilliancy; splendor.
Think it no
glory
to swell in tyranny.
Sir P. Sidney.
Jewels lose their
glory
if neglected.
Shakespeare
Your sex’s
glory
't is to shine unknown.
Young.
3.
Pride; boastfulness; arrogance.
In
glory
of thy fortunes.
Chapman.
4.
The presence of the Divine Being; the manifestations of the divine nature and favor to the blessed in heaven; celestial honor; heaven.
Thou shalt guide me with thy counsel, and afterward receive me to
glory
.
Ps. lxxiii. 24.
5.
An emanation of light supposed to proceed from beings of peculiar sanctity. 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.
☞ This is the general term; when confined to the head it is properly called nimbus; when encircling the whole body, aureola or aureole.
Glory hole
,
an opening in the wall of a glass furnace, exposing the brilliant white light of the interior.
Knight.
–
Glory pea
(Bot.)
,
the name of two leguminous plants (
Clianthus Dampieri
and
C. puniceus
) of Australia and New Zeland. They have showy scarlet or crimson flowers.
–
Glory tree
(Bot.)
,
a name given to several species of the verbenaceous genus
Clerodendron
, showy flowering shrubs of tropical regions.

Glo′ry

,
Verb.
I.
[
imp. & p. p.
Gloried
;
p. pr. & vb. n.
Glorying
.]
[OE.
glorien
, OF.
glorier
, fr. L.
gloriari
, fr.
gloria
glory. See
Glory
,
Noun.
]
1.
To exult with joy; to rejoice.
Glory
ye in his holy name.
Ps. cv.[GREEK]
2.
To boast; to be proud.
God forbid that I should
glory
, save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Gal. vi. 14
No one . . . should
glory
in his prosperity.
Richardson.

Webster 1828 Edition

Glory

GLO'RY

,
Noun.
[L. gloria; planus; hence, bright, shining. Glory, then, is brightness, splendor. The L. floreo, to blossom, to flower, to flourish, is probably of the same family.]
1.
Brightness; luster; splendor.
The moon, serene in glory, mounts the sky.
For he received from God the Father honor and glory,when there came such a voice to him from the excellent glory. 2 Pet.1.
In this passage of Peter, the latter word glory refers to the visible splendor or bright cloud that overshadowed Christ at his transfiguration. The former word glory, though the same in the original, is to be understood in a figurative sense.
2.
Splendor; magnificence.
Solomon, in all his glory, was not arrayed like one
of these. Matt.vi.
3.
The circle of rays surrounding the head of a figure in painting.
4.
Praise ascribed in adoration; honor.
Glory to God in the highest. Luke 2.
5.
Honor; praise; fame; renown; celebrity. The hero pants for glory in the field. It was the glory of Howard to relieve the wretched.
6.
The felicity of heaven prepared for the children of God; celestial bliss.
Thou shalt guide me with thy counsel,and afterwards receive me to glory. Ps.73.
7.
In scripture, the divine presence; or the ark, the manifestation of it.
The glory is departed from Israel. 1 Sam.4.
8.
The divine perfections or excellence.
The heavens declare the glory of God. Ps.19.
9.
Honorable representation of God. 1 Cor. 11.8.
10. Distinguished honor or ornament; that which honors or makes renowned; that of which one may boast.
Babylon, the glory of kingdoms. Is.13.
11. Pride; boastfulness; arrogance; as vain glory.
12. Generous pride.

GLO'RY

,
Verb.
I.
[L. glorior, from gloria.]
To exult with joy; to rejoice.
Glory ye in his holy name. Ps.105. 1 Chron. 16.
1.
To boast; to be proud of.
No one should glory in his prosperity.

Definition 2024

glory

glory

English

Noun

glory ‎(countable and uncountable, plural glories)

  1. Great beauty or splendour, that is so overwhelming it is considered powerful.
    • 1918, W. B. Maxwell, chapter 5, in The Mirror and the Lamp:
      He was thinking; but the glory of the song, the swell from the great organ, the clustered lights, […], the height and vastness of this noble fane, its antiquity and its strength—all these things seemed to have their part as causes of the thrilling emotion that accompanied his thoughts.
    • 2014 June 14, “It's a gas”, in The Economist, volume 411, number 8891:
      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.
    • Edmund Spenser (c.1552–1599)
      Spread his glory through all countries wide.
  3. That quality in a person or thing which secures general praise or honour.
    • Sir Philip Sidney (1554-1586)
      Think it no glory to swell in tyranny.
    • William Shakespeare (1564-1616)
      Jewels lose their glory if neglected.
    • 1913, Joseph C. Lincoln, chapter 4, in Mr. Pratt's Patients:
      Then he commenced to talk, really talk. and inside of two flaps of a herring's fin he had me mesmerized, like Eben Holt's boy at the town hall show. He talked about the ills of humanity, and the glories of health and Nature and service and land knows what all.
  4. Worship or praise.
    • Bible, Luke ii. 14
      Glory to God in the highest.
  5. An optical phenomenon caused by water droplets, consisting of concentric rings and somewhat similar to a rainbow.
  6. Victory; success.
    • 2012 May 13, Alistair Magowan, “Sunderland 0-1 Man Utd”, in BBC Sport:
      But, with United fans in celebratory mood as it appeared their team might snatch glory, they faced an anxious wait as City equalised in stoppage time.
  7. An emanation of light supposed to proceed from beings of peculiar sanctity. 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. (obsolete) Pride; boastfulness; arrogance.

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Translations

Verb

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

  1. To exult with joy; to rejoice.
    • 1891: Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles
      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.
  2. To boast; to be proud.

Translations

Etymology

From Middle English glory, glorie, from Old French glorie ‎(“glory”), from Latin glōria ‎(“glory, fame, renown, praise, ambition, boasting”), from Proto-Indo-European *glōs-, *gals-, *galos- ‎(“voice, cry”). Cognate with Old English ceallian ‎(“to cry out, shout, call”). More at call.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈɡlɔːɹi/
  • Rhymes: -ɔːri

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