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glorify

verb
/ˈɡlɔːɹɪfaɪ/

Etymology

From Middle English glorifien, from Anglo-Norman and Old French glorifier, from Late Latin glorificō, from Latin gloria + faciō (“to make”). Displaced native Middle English wuldrien (“to glorify”), from Old English wuldrian as well as Middle English stellifien (“to glorify, make stellar”), from Old French stellifier (Medieval Latin stellificāre); see stellify.

  1. derived from gloria
  2. derived from glorificō
  3. derived from glorifier
  4. inherited from glorifien

Definitions

  1. To exalt, or give glory or praise to (something or someone).

  2. To make (something) appear to be more glorious than it is

    To make (something) appear to be more glorious than it is; regard something or someone as excellent baselessly.

    • Some movies glorify mobsters by making them seem like the cool kids around the block.
    • Historical dictators are glorified in some countries that are dictatorships and by some political radicals.
    • Thursday's long-awaited relocation fulfils a key pledge of the socialist government, which said Spain should not continue to glorify a fascist who ruled the country for nearly four decades.

  3. To worship or extol.

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Derived

deglorify, disglorify, glorifiable, overglorify, unglorify

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at glorify. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

01glorify02exalt03elevate04raise05increase06greaten07magnify

A definitional loop anchored at glorify. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

7 hops · closes at glorify

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA