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glory
English
Etymology
From Middle English glory, glorie, from Old French glorie (“glory”), from Latin gl?ria (“glory, fame, renown, praise, ambition, boasting”). Doublet of gloria.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??l???i/
- (without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA(key): /??lo(?)?i/
- Rhymes: -??ri
Noun
glory (countable and uncountable, plural glories)
- Great beauty and splendor.
- Honour, admiration, or distinction, accorded by common consent to a person or thing; high reputation; renown.
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, London: William Ponsonbie, Book 2, Canto 1, p. 197,[1]
- In this faire wize they traueild long yfere,
- Through many hard assayes, which did betide;
- Of which he honour still away did beare,
- And spred his glorie through all countries wide.
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, London: William Ponsonbie, Book 2, Canto 1, p. 197,[1]
- That quality in a person or thing which secures general praise or honour.
- 1590, Philip Sidney, The Countess of Pembroke’s Arcadia, London: William Ponsonbie, Book 1, “The First Eclogues,” [p. 92b],[2]
- Deeme it no gloire [sic] to swell in tyrannie.
- c. 1608, William Shakespeare, Pericles, Prince of Tyre, Act II, Scene 2,[3]
- As jewels lose their glory if neglected,
- So princes their renowns if not respected.
- 1590, Philip Sidney, The Countess of Pembroke’s Arcadia, London: William Ponsonbie, Book 1, “The First Eclogues,” [p. 92b],[2]
- Worship or praise.
- (meteorology, optics) An optical phenomenon, consisting of concentric rings and somewhat similar to a rainbow, caused by sunlight or moonlight interacting with the water droplets that compose mist or clouds, centered on the antisolar or antilunar point.
- Synonym: anticorona
- Victory; success.
- An emanation of light supposed to shine from beings that are specially holy. It is represented in art by rays of gold, or the like, proceeding from the head or body, or by a disk, or a mere line.
- 1854, Charles Dickens, Hard Times, Chapter 13,[5]
- Seen across the dim candle with his moistened eyes, she looked as if she had a glory shining round her head.
- 1854, Charles Dickens, Hard Times, Chapter 13,[5]
- (theology) The manifestation of the presence of God as perceived by humans in Abrahamic religions.
- (obsolete) Pride; boastfulness; arrogance.
- c. 1624, George Chapman (translator), The Crowne of all Homers Workes Batrachomyomachia or the Battaile of Frogs and Mise, His Hymn’s and Epigrams, London: John Bill, “A Hymne to Venus,” p. 106,[6]
- […] But if thou declare
- The Secrets, truth; and art so mad to dare
- (In glory of thy fortunes) to approue,
- That rich-crownd Venus, mixt with thee in loue;
- Ioue (fir’d with my aspersion, so dispred)
- Will, with a wreakefull lightning, dart thee dead.
- c. 1624, George Chapman (translator), The Crowne of all Homers Workes Batrachomyomachia or the Battaile of Frogs and Mise, His Hymn’s and Epigrams, London: John Bill, “A Hymne to Venus,” p. 106,[6]
Synonyms
- (emanation of light proceeding from specially holy beings): halo
- praise
- worship
- fame
- honor
- honour
Related terms
Translations
Verb
glory (third-person singular simple present glories, present participle glorying, simple past and past participle gloried)
- To exult with joy; to rejoice.
- 1753, James Hervey, "A Visitation Sermon: Preached at Northampton, May 10, 1753":
- In what the Apostle did glory?—He gloried in a Cross. ... [T]o the Ear of a Galatian, it conveyed much the same Meaning, as if the Apostle had gloried in a Halter; gloried in the Gallows; gloried in a Gibbet.
- 1891: Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles
- He says he glories in what happened, and that good may be done indirectly; but I wish he would not so wear himself out now he is getting old, and would leave such pigs to their wallowing.
- 1902, William James, The Varieties of Religious Experience, Lectures 4 & 5:
- When the passion is extreme, suffering may actually be gloried in, provided it be for the ideal cause, death may lose its sting, the grave its victory.
- 1753, James Hervey, "A Visitation Sermon: Preached at Northampton, May 10, 1753":
- To boast; to be proud.
- 1881, Revised Version, 2 Corinthians 7:14:
- For if in anything I have gloried to him on your behalf, I was not put to shame; but as we spake all things to you in truth, so our glorying also, which I made before Titus, was found to be truth.
- 1881, Revised Version, 2 Corinthians 7:14:
- (archaic, poetic) To shine radiantly.
- 1859–85, Alfred Tennyson, Idylls of the King, "The Last Tournament":
- Down in a casement sat,
- A low sea-sunset glorying round her hair
- And glossy-throated grace, Isolt the Queen.
- 1859–85, Alfred Tennyson, Idylls of the King, "The Last Tournament":
Translations
Middle English
Noun
glory
- Alternative form of glorie
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acropolitan
English
Etymology
acropolis + -an
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) enPR: ?k'r?p??l?t?n, IPA(key): /?æk???p?l?t?n/
Adjective
acropolitan (not comparable)
- Of or befitting an acropolis, especially in lofty glory and in the capacity to inspire awe; compare Acropolitan.
- 1913: Pierre Louÿs and Mitchell Starrett Buck, Aphrodite, page 130
- And then, this enduring ocean of houses, of palaces, temples, porticoes, colonnades, which floated before her eyes from the Western Necropolis to the Gardens of the Goddess: Bruchion, the Hellenic town, dazzling and regular; Rhacotis, the Egyptian town, before which the light-flooded Paneion rose like an acropolitan mountain; the Great Temple of Serapis whose façade was horned by two long rosy obelisks; the Great Temple of Aphrodite, surrounded by the murmurs of three hundred thousand palm trees and of numberless waters; the Temple of Persephone and the Temple of Arsinoe, the two sanctuaries of Poseidon, the three towers of Isis Pharis, the seven columns of Isis Lochias, and the Theater and the Hippodrome and the Stadion where Psittacos had run against Nicosthene and the tomb of Stratonice and the tomb of the god Alexander — Alexandria! Alexandria — the sea, the men, the colossal marble Pharos whose mirrors saved men from the sea! Alexandria — the city of Berenice and of the eleven Ptolemaic kings, Physcos, Philometor, Epiphanios, Philadelphos! Alexandria — fulfillment of all dreams, the crown of all glories conquered during three thousand years in Memphis, Thebes, Athens, Corinth, by the chisel, by the reed, by the compass and by the sword!
- 1924: Victor Branford, Living Religions, a Plea for the Larger Modernism, page 162 (Leplay House Press)
- At Hastings and other towns, where archæological ruins monopolise the central height, you see an unwitting abandonment of the acropolitan ideal.
- 1992: Lawrence J. Vale, Architecture, Power, and National Identity, page 102 (Yale University Press; ?ISBN, 9780300049589)
- Like the ancient citadel, the capitol zone is a place of power and privilege; unlike the earlier acropolitan destination, however, current public access to the capitol complex is thoroughly discouraged.
- 2007: Roman Payne, Cities & Countries, chapter XIII: The Conscription of the Troops, page 187 (ModeRoom Press; ?ISBN
- The rising sun peered between the cypress trees flooding the Grand Plaza with yellow matinal light. The backside of the palace overlooked the plaza with balconies supported by two tiers of colonnades and was framed on each of the three other sides by columned façades of buildings constructed from marble and stone. This plaza was the pride of the acropolitan village that served the palace. It was separated from the foyer where Alexis’ window overlooked simply by a tiny lane of one-storey village houses.
- 1913: Pierre Louÿs and Mitchell Starrett Buck, Aphrodite, page 130
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