glorify

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I hate it when people glorify the act.

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Quick take

praise, glorify, or honor; "extol the virtues of one's children"; "glorify one's spouse's cooking"

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of glorify gathered in one view.

verb

praise, glorify, or honor; "extol the virtues of one's children"; "glorify one's spouse's cooking"

verb

bestow glory upon; "The victory over the enemy glorified the Republic"

verb

elevate or idealize, in allusion to Christ's transfiguration

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for glorify.

verb

praise, glorify, or honor; "extol the virtues of one's children"; "glorify one's spouse's cooking"

verb

bestow glory upon; "The victory over the enemy glorified the Republic"

verb

elevate or idealize, in allusion to Christ's transfiguration

verb

cause to seem more splendid; "You are glorifying a rather mediocre building"

Example sentences

I hate it when people glorify the act.

You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them.

"You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them.

I think that we glorify those people who seem to far surpass the status quo and bend their stories into myth.

I think Burn Notice's treatment of the subject is good precisely because it doesn't glorify torture.

It counts Whitman's rifle and Speck's knife, and the television programs which glorify violence in order to sell toys to our children.

DreamWorks and Disney going to glorify this behavior and produce a film baed on Daniel book, and likely make him rich from royalties?

I am personally glad that techcrunch chose to highlight the fact that Adam is a single dad. Often in our industry we glorify and highlight the college lifestyle of a bro-grammer.

What is there to romanticize, glorify, glamorize, sentimentalize, and eulogize about the fucking government?

Under sufficiently slow and gradual change, it works reasonably well; in the case of a sharp discontinuity, however, the method breaks down: though we may glorify it with the name 'common sense', our past experience is no longer relevant, the analogies become too shallow, and the metaphors become more misleading than illuminating.