Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A state or the act of glorying; a sense of triumph; vainglory.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun obsolete Boast; a triumphing.

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  • noun obsolete A boast; a triumphing.

Etymologies

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Latin gloriatio, from gloriari to glory, boast, from gloria glory. See glory (noun).

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Examples

  • Our first feeling towards God, after we have found peace with Him, is that of clinging gratitude for so costly a salvation; but no sooner have we learned to cry, Abba, Father, under the sweet sense of reconciliation, than "gloriation" in Him takes the place of dread of Him, and now He appears to us "altogether lovely!"

    Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible 1871

  • Now there may be a lawful kind of gloriation, rejoicing in the works of

    The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning Hugh Binning 1640

  • "And your gloriation;" -- which is an exultation of joy.

    The Sermons of John Owen 1616-1683 1968

  • This joy, if we take in the term all with it especially, includeth these two things; to wit complacency, and gloriation: a being well pleased with these afflictions, and also a visible glorying upon such an account.

    The Whole Works of the Rev. John Howe, M.A. with a Memoir of the Author. Vol. VI. 1630-1705 1822

  • Yea, what matter of gloriation and boasting was it to papists, to see presbyterians sleeping and succumbing, and not opposing, when, at this opened gap, they were bringing in the Trojan horse of popery and slavery?

    Biographia Scoticana (Scots Worthies) A Brief Historical Account of the Lives, Characters, and Memorable Transactions of the Most Eminent Scots Worthies John Howie 1764

  • GLORY, or internal gloriation or triumph of the mind, is that passion which proceedeth from the imagination or conception of our own power, above the power of him that contendeth with us.

    The Elements of Law Natural and Politic 1650

  • All which gives us a plain demonstration of this, that self gloriation and complacency, in reflection upon ourselves, is both the greatest ignorance and the worst sacrilege.

    The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning Hugh Binning 1640

  • Therefore the soul, as it were, anticipates and forestalls the morrow, and borrows so much present joy and boasting upon the head of it, which when it comes itself, perhaps it will not fill the hand of the reaper, let be (278) pay for that debt of gloriation that was taken on upon its name, or compense the expectation which was in it, see

    The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning Hugh Binning 1640

  • All these things though sweet, yet will surfeit, gloriation in them is neither glory nor gain, neither honourable nor profitable.

    The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning Hugh Binning 1640

  • Truly, a soul possessed with the meditation of this royal descent from God, could not possibly glory in those inglorious baser things, in which men glory, and could not contain or restrain gloriation and boasting in him.

    The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning Hugh Binning 1640

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