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Glorification   /glˌɔrəfɪkˈeɪʃən/  /glˌɔrɪfɪkˈeɪʃən/   Listen
Glorification

noun
1.
A state of high honor.  Synonym: glory.
2.
A portrayal of something as ideal.  Synonyms: idealisation, idealization.
3.
The act of glorifying (as in worship).






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"Glorification" Quotes from Famous Books



... upon the immortal Robinson Crusoe. Thus it came about that George Borrow was proclaimed brother to the gypsy's son Ambrose, {12b} who as Jasper Petulengro figures so largely in Lavengro and The Romany Rye, and is credited with that exquisitely phrased pagan glorification of ...
— The Life of George Borrow • Herbert Jenkins

... to end. It praised the orators, the militia, and all the bands that came from everywhere, and all this in honest country newspaper detail, but the writer ran out of adjectives toward the end. Having exhausted his whole magazine of praise and glorification, he found he still had one band left over. He had to say something about it, and he said: "The Essex band done the best ...
— Innocents abroad • Mark Twain

... again, there is a supreme woman at the center of domestic life—Penelope in the one, Arete in the other, each being wife and mother, each supremely faithful to her institution, the Family. This predominance and glorification of the married woman and the home constitute a common characteristic of both divisions, and show the same fundamental conception of her worth, as well as of her position in the social order. It may be doubted if Modern ...
— Homer's Odyssey - A Commentary • Denton J. Snider

... at extraordinary heights above the level of the land, while his friends, his rivals, and all manner of men and women besides, gaze with amazement! Patent agents are only too well aware how often an inordinate desire for self-glorification goes along with real inventive talent, and how many of the brotherhood of inventors make light of the losses which may be inflicted upon trusting investors so long as they themselves ...
— Twentieth Century Inventions - A Forecast • George Sutherland

... there are fairies in it, and a sort of pot-pourri of queernesses which might not impossibly have come from the author or editor of the Moyen in his less inconveniently ultra-Pantagruelist moments. Le Cabinet de Minerve is actually a glorification of "honest" love. In fact, Beroalde is one of the oddest of "polygraphers," and there is nobody quite like him in English, though some of his fellows may be matched, after a fashion, with our Elizabethan pamphleteers. I have long wished ...
— A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 - From the Beginning to 1800 • George Saintsbury


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