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  • verb Present participle of glory.

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Examples

  • He hints the danger of contagion from this example: Your glorying is not good.

    Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation) 1721

  • Praise you his holy name, so some; but it comes all to one, for in glorying in him we give glory to him.

    Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume III (Job to Song of Solomon) 1721

  • 1Co 1: 12, 31, where the true object of glorying is stated: "He that glorieth, let him glory in THE Lord."

    Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible 1871

  • Redgrave 'glorying' in her late sister, daughterLOS ANGELES - Vanessa Redgrave says she's grieving the deaths of her sister and daughter but also "glorying" in their memory.

    Gaea Times (by Simple Thoughts) Breaking News and incisive views 24/7 2010

  • Joy arising from imagination of a man's own power and ability is that exultation of the mind which is called glorying: which, if grounded upon the experience of his own former actions, is the same with confidence: but if grounded on the flattery of others, or only supposed by himself, for delight in the consequences of it, is called vainglory: which name is properly given; because a well-grounded confidence begetteth attempt; whereas the supposing of power does not, and is therefore rightly called vain.

    Leviathan 2007

  • Joy arising from imagination of a man's own power and ability is that exultation of the mind which is called glorying: which, if grounded upon the experience of his own former actions, is the same with confidence: but if grounded on the flattery of others, or only supposed by himself, for delight in the consequences of it, is called vainglory: which name is properly given; because a well-grounded confidence begetteth attempt; whereas the supposing of power does not, and is therefore rightly called vain.

    Leviathan, or, The matter, forme, & power of a common-wealth ecclesiasticall and civill 1651

  • LOS ANGELES — Vanessa Redgrave says she's grieving the deaths of her sister and daughter but also "glorying" in their memory.

    Vanessa Redgrave 'Glorying' In Late Sister Lynn, Daughter Natasha 2010

  • LOS ANGELES — Vanessa Redgrave says she's grieving the deaths of her sister and daughter but also "glorying" in their memory.

    Vanessa Redgrave 'Glorying' In Late Sister Lynn, Daughter Natasha 2010

  • That's not to say I found it unwatchable or even uninteresting; but what is there to be said about that kind of glorying in nihilism?

    Archive 2005-11-13 2005

  • That's not to say I found it unwatchable or even uninteresting; but what is there to be said about that kind of glorying in nihilism?

    Masters of War 2005

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