GLORIFICATION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does glorification mean? 

• GLORIFICATION (noun)
  The noun GLORIFICATION has 3 senses:

1. a state of high honor

2. a portrayal of something as ideal

3. the act of glorifying (as in worship)

  Familiarity information: GLORIFICATION used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GLORIFICATION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A state of high honor

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

glorification; glory

Context example:

he valued glory above life itself

Hypernyms ("glorification" is a kind of...):

honor; honour; laurels (the state of being honored)

Derivation:

glorify (bestow glory upon)

glorify (praise, glorify, or honor)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A portrayal of something as ideal

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

glorification; idealisation; idealization

Context example:

the idealization of rural life was very misleading

Hypernyms ("glorification" is a kind of...):

admiration; appreciation (a favorable judgment)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "glorification"):

romanticisation; romanticization; sentimentalisation; sentimentalization (the act of indulging in sentiment)

Derivation:

glorify (cause to seem more splendid)

Sense 3

Meaning:

The act of glorifying (as in worship)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Context example:

the glorification of God

Hypernyms ("glorification" is a kind of...):

adoration; idolisation; idolization (the act of admiring strongly)

Derivation:

glorify (praise, glorify, or honor)

 Context examples 

Was it hardness, was it selfishness, that she should ask me to risk my life for her own glorification?

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It was all in the same extravagant vein, garnished with many senseless oaths; but I observed this difference, that, whereas my uncle and Sheridan had something of humour in their exaggeration, Francis tended always to ill-nature, and the Prince to self-glorification.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)