Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Held in glory or honor; honored.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective obsolete Illustrious; honorable; noble.
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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
glory .
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Examples
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Not long ago John McCain gloried in the reflected glow of the media.
It Only Matters Who Has the Best Line of Shite | Disinformation 2008
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In her last published sentence at the end of _Persuasion_ the author tells us how her Anne Elliot 'gloried' in being the wife of a sailor; and no doubt she had a similar feeling with regard to her two naval brothers.
Jane Austen, Her Life and Letters A Family Record Richard Arthur Austen-Leigh
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Sanford Sigoloff 1930 - 2011 Sanford Sigoloff gloried in the nickname "Ming the Merciless," for the mass firings he triggered as a corporate turnaround specialist.
He Wielded Ax in Bankruptcies Stephen Miller 2011
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Then, again, it was only yesterday that it would have hurt him, Blanche's rubbing her feet; but now he gloried in Frona's permitting it, and his heart went out in a more kindly way to Blanche.
CHAPTER 20 2010
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He could have endured poverty; and while this distress had been the meed of his virtue, he gloried in it: but the ingratitude of the Turk, and the loss of his beloved Safie, were misfortunes more bitter and irreparable.
Chapter 14 2010
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What was subconscious became conscious, what, back in the past, was a mere adumbration gloried out in Aurora splendours.
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Rather than suggest, perhaps, the Surge fell short of its exalted goals and gloried, storied distinctions, they will ignore what is right in front of their faces.
Guarding the Surge Narrative While Iraq Burns « Antiwar.com Blog 2009
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“She surely deserves it all,” Graham murmured, although vaguely hurt in that the addle-pated, alphabet-obsessed, epicurean anarchist of an Irishman who gloried in being a loafer and a pensioner should even mildly be in love with the Little Lady.
CHAPTER XII 2010
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Remembrances | 1944-2011 Bijan Pakzad gloried in offering "the costliest men's wear in the world" at a Beverly Hills showroom so exclusive that even presidents and princes had to make an appointment.
Luxury Designer Bijan Pakzad Dies Stephen Miller 2011
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And, Thom, Thom, I should not like to be John Fairfax in the night-watches of the years to come, in the night-watches, when his eyes shall see, not the sun-gloried hair of the woman by his side, but the dark tresses of a mate forsaken in the forests of the North.
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