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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 ] elevate or idealize, in allusion to Christ's transfiguration
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[ verb ] cause to seem more splendid
Examples "You are glorifying a rather mediocre building" Related terms |
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