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[ verb ] praise, glorify, or honor

Examples

: "extol the virtues of one's children" "glorify one's spouse's cooking"

Used in print

(Charles Wharton Stork, "Verner von Heidenstam"...)

Each is still glorified as a national hero .

(Ralph B. Long. The Sentence and Its Parts: A...)

`` A charge to keep I have , A God to glorify '' .

Dominant stress is of_course more than extended duration , and normally centers_on syllables that would have primary stress or phrase stress if the words or longer units they are parts of were spoken alone : a dominant stress given to glorify would normally center_on its first syllable rather than its last .

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[ verb ] bestow glory upon

Examples

"The victory over the enemy glorified the Republic"

Used in print

(Charles Wharton Stork, "Verner von Heidenstam"...)

Each is still glorified as a national hero .

Related terms

change glory

3
[ verb ] elevate or idealize, in allusion to Christ's transfiguration

Related terms

change august_6

4
[ verb ] cause to seem more splendid

Examples

"You are glorifying a rather mediocre building"

Related terms

embroider idealization

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