glorify

verb glo·ri·fy \ ˈglȯr-ə-ˌfī \

Updated on: 19 May 2018

glorified; glorifying

transitive verb

1 a : to make glorious by bestowing honor, praise, or admiration

b : to elevate to celestial glory

2 : to light up brilliantly

Chandeliers glorified the entire room.

3 a : to represent as glorious : extol

a song glorifying romantic love

b : to cause to be or seem to be better than the actual condition

the new position is just a glorified version of the old stockroom job

4 : to give glory to (as in worship)

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glorification

play \ˌglȯr-ə-fə-ˈkā-shən\ noun

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glorifier

play \ˈglȯr-ə-ˌfī(-ə)r\ noun

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Examples of glorify in a Sentence

Glorify and give thanks to God.
a number of big names were recruited in the hopes that their presence would glorify the university's school of medicine in the eyes of the medical world

Recent Examples of glorify from the Web

Alaïa glorified the female form in a very flirty, French way.

— Vogue, "Online Now! First Time Ever! 8 of Azzedine Alaïa’s Archival Shows From the 1980s and ’90s," 9 May 2018
Time will tell if the screenplay will glorify Trump's exploits and normalize his problematic past, much the way Wolf of Wall Street did with Jordan Belfort.

— refinery29.com, "The Donald Trump Biopic No One Asked For Is Happening," 2 May 2018
Unlike art historical landscape painters such as Albert Bierstadt, or contemporary environmental painters such as Alexis Rockman, Cao is not trying to glorify nature, fix it, or lament humanity’s stewardship of it.

— cate mcquaid, BostonGlobe.com, "Cao Jun: the dance and the chance of it," 28 Mar. 2018
Experts on the cult also warn that if they are executed, the members would be glorified as martyrs by cult remnants, likely bolstering their worship of Asahara.

— Fox News, "Aum cult members face execution for Tokyo subway gas attack," 20 Mar. 2018
Rappers flaunt bad-guy lifestyles; the head of the FBI works to bring down the drug empires that rappers glorify.

— stephen a. crockett jr., The Root, "This Photo of Former FBI Director James Comey, Ghostface and Method Man Is Really Weird," 18 Apr. 2018
In planning the mural for the Beeson Divinity School chapel dome several years ago, Samford University had to decide how to portray Christ: glorified or suffering.

— greg garrison, AL.com, "What is Passover? Here are some facts about the biblical holiday," 30 Mar. 2018
But North Korea is a place whose leaders are glorified and portrayed as infallible.

— The Christian Science Monitor, "What to make of a North Korean apology," 2 Apr. 2018
My goal is not to characterize, demonize, patronize, or glorify anybody.

— National Geographic, "War in Syria: Stories of Survival and Hope," 31 Mar. 2018

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