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gloriless

adj

Etymology

From glory + -less.

  1. derived from glōria — “glory, fame, renown, praise, ambition, boasting”
  2. derived from glorie — “glory”
  3. inherited from glory
  4. suffixed as gloriless — “glory + less”

Definitions

  1. Without glory

    Without glory; unglorious

    • Beside the record of His life, the history of Cyrus, the annals of Cæsar, appear mean — gloriless.
    • That is precisely where so many of us are-trapped in our own cisterns, stuck in a gloryless life and a gloryless church.

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