glorified

• Oh, yes, perhaps; though I am not so sure that the submissive nature has not been too much glorified--in theory. —  The Daughters of Danaus
• Holy Mother Maria Theresa--glorified and celestial saint, I have the honour of drinking to your health," and the man in black drank Well, Belle," said I, "what have you to say to the gentleman's proposal That if he goes on in this way I will break his glass against his mouth You have heard the lady's answer," said I I have," said the man in black, "and shall not press the matter. —  The Romany Rye a sequel to "Lavengro"
• She then, in the space of a few months, passed through all the phases of political thought which Thiers, Blanc, Lamartine and Michelet had glorified--the democratic, the bourgeois, the autocratic republic, and finally the relapse into the empire--the empire of Louis Napoleon And, essentially, the histories of the Revolution produced by these writers were special pleadings for a defeated cause, springing up in the year 1848 to a new assertion. —  The French Revolution A Short History
• A woman glorified, and falter? —  The Poems of Emma Lazarus, Volume 1
• "Seems to me I never saw you look so sort of -- well, glorified, as you might say. —  The Portygee

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