GLORIFY (glorified)

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Irregular inflected form: glorified   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does glorify mean? 

• GLORIFY (verb)
  The verb GLORIFY has 4 senses:

1. praise, glorify, or honor

2. bestow glory upon

3. elevate or idealize, in allusion to Christ's transfiguration

4. cause to seem more splendid

  Familiarity information: GLORIFY used as a verb is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GLORIFY (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they glorify    ... he / she / it glorifies   
Past simple: glorified   
Past participle: glorified   
-ing form: glorifying   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Praise, glorify, or honor

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Synonyms:

exalt; extol; glorify; laud; proclaim

Context example:

glorify one's spouse's cooking

Hypernyms (to "glorify" is one way to...):

praise (express approval of)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "glorify"):

canonise; canonize (treat as a sacred person)

ensky (exalt to the skies; lift to the skies or to heaven with praise)

crack up (rhapsodize about)

hymn (praise by singing a hymn)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody

Sentence example:

Sam and Sue glorify the movie

Derivation:

glorification (the act of glorifying (as in worship))

glorification (a state of high honor)

glory (brilliant radiant beauty)

glory (a state of high honor)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Bestow glory upon

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Context example:

The victory over the enemy glorified the Republic

Hypernyms (to "glorify" is one way to...):

alter; change; modify (cause to change; make different; cause a transformation)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

Derivation:

glorification (a state of high honor)

glory (brilliant radiant beauty)

glory (a state of high honor)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Elevate or idealize, in allusion to Christ's transfiguration

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Synonyms:

glorify; spiritualize; transfigure

Hypernyms (to "glorify" is one way to...):

alter; change; modify (cause to change; make different; cause a transformation)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s somebody

Sense 4

Meaning:

Cause to seem more splendid

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Context example:

You are glorifying a rather mediocre building

Hypernyms (to "glorify" is one way to...):

aggrandise; aggrandize; blow up; dramatise; dramatize; embellish; embroider; lard; pad (add details to)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

Derivation:

glorification (a portrayal of something as ideal)

glory (brilliant radiant beauty)

glory (a state of high honor)

 Context examples 

"It glorifies love as well as the petticoat," Martin laughed.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

“Yes, my boy, these were all done prematurely before my biographer had come to glorify me.”

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The bag is opened, and several quarts of tin money shower down upon the stage till it is quite glorified with the glitter.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Item, that having been told by the master of the novices that he should restrict his food for two days to a single three-pound loaf of bran and beans, for the greater honoring and glorifying of St. Monica, mother of the holy Augustine, he was heard by brother Ambrose and others to say that he wished twenty thousand devils would fly away with the said Monica, mother of the holy Augustine, or any other saint who came between a man and his meat.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I was got up in a special great-coat and shawl, expressly to do honour to that distinguished eminence; had glorified myself upon it a good deal; and had felt that I was a credit to the coach.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

It required some glorified petticoat to account for that 'Love-cycle,' and that's the shame of it.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

It was a sort of written duet, wherein each glorified the other in loverlike fashion, very pleasant to read and satisfactory to think of, for no one had any objection to make.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

It seems to me, at this hour, that I have never seen such sunlight as on those bright April afternoons; that I have never seen such a sunny little figure as I used to see, sitting in the doorway of the old boat; that I have never beheld such sky, such water, such glorified ships sailing away into golden air.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

He wanted to glorify the leaders of forlorn hopes, the mad lovers, the giants that fought under stress and strain, amid terror and tragedy, making life crackle with the strength of their endeavor.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)