Definition

1. Verb:
   • To praise and honor someone or something highly, often making them seem more important or splendid than they are: To speak or write about someone or something in a way that shows great admiration and respect, sometimes excessively.
   • To elevate to a state of glory or ideal perfection: To represent something as perfect or ideal, often in a spiritual or moral context.
   • To make something appear more attractive or impressive than it really is: To describe or depict something in a way that exaggerates its positive qualities.

Usage Examples

• Verb:
  • Some historians glorify past leaders, ignoring their flaws.
  • The artist's painting glorifies the beauty of the natural landscape.
  • The ceremony was held to glorify the achievements of the scientific team.

Advanced Usage

• "to glorify in": To take great pride or pleasure in something, often openly.
  • He glorifies in his reputation as a rebel.
• "to glorify oneself": To praise or represent oneself in a highly admirable way.
  • The biography seemed more to glorify the author himself than to tell an honest story.

Variants and Related Words

• Glorification (n): The action of describing or representing something as admirable, especially unjustifiably.
  • The glorification of war in some films is concerning.
• Glorious (adj): Deserving great praise, honor, and admiration; having or bringing great beauty or splendor.
  • They celebrated a glorious victory.

Synonyms

• Exalt: To praise someone or something highly.
• Extol: To praise enthusiastically.
• Celebrate: To acknowledge a significant event with a social gathering or enjoyable activity; to honor.
• Magnify: To extol; to praise highly (archaic or formal in this sense).

Antonyms

• Vilify: To speak or write about in an abusively disparaging manner.
• Denigrate: To criticize unfairly; to belittle.
• Criticize: To indicate the faults of someone or something in a disapproving way.

Related Phrases and Idioms

• "Glorify the past": To remember or describe past events as being much better than they actually were.
  • It's easy to glorify the past and forget the difficulties people faced.

Verb

1. cause to seem more splendid
   • You are glorifying a rather mediocre building
2. elevate or idealize, in allusion to Christ's transfiguration
3. bestow glory upon
   • The victory over the enemy glorified the Republic
4. praise, glorify, or honor
   • extol the virtues of one's children
   • glorify one's spouse's cooking