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adjective

Glorious adj.

Exhibiting attributes, qualities, or acts that are worthy of or receive glory; noble; praiseworthy; excellent; splendid; illustrious; inspiring admiration; as, glorious deeds. "These are thy glorious works, Parent of good!"

Eager for glory or distinction; haughty; boastful; ostentatious; vainglorious. (Obs.) "Most miserable Is the desire that's glorious."

Ecstatic; hilarious; elated with drink. (Colloq.) "kings may be blest, but Tam was glorious, O'er all the ills of life victorious." "During his office treason was no crime, The sons of Belial had a glorious time."

Synonyms: Eniment; noble; excellent; renowned; illustrious; celebrated; magnificent; grand; splendid. "Sing ye to the Lord, for he hath triumphed gloriously." "I speak it not gloriously, nor out of affectation."

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"Glorious" Quotes from Famous Books

... not forget that He Who had the power to give had the right to take away. But, trusting to His mercy and loving-kindness, they hoped that He would think fit to protect them during their lives on earth, while they could with confidence look forward to that glorious future where there will be no more sorrow and ...

— Michael Penguyne - Fisher Life on the Cornish Coast • William H. G. Kingston

... nobody would buy them? You know that you cannot smuggle slaves into England. The instant a slave touches English ground he becomes free. Glorious privilege! Why should it not be extended to all her dominions? If the future importation of slaves into these islands were forbidden by law, the trade must cease. No man can either sell or possess slaves without its being ...

— Tales & Novels, Vol. 2 • Maria Edgeworth

... with the Duke and ending with a sad, frayed and literary man; the little chaise in which the two old ladies from Barlton drive up to get their paper of an evening, the servant from the inn, the newsboy whose mother keeps a sweetshop—they are all my village friends. The glorious Sussex accent, whose only vowel is the broad "a", grows but more rich and emphatic from the necessity of impressing itself upon foreign intruders. The smoke also of the train as it skirts the Downs is part and parcel of what has become (thanks to the trains) our encloistered country life; ...

— On Nothing & Kindred Subjects • Hilaire Belloc

... progress cannot come in comfortable and in complacent times, but out of trial and out of confusion. Tom Paine aroused the troubled Americans of 1776 to stand up to the times that try men's souls because the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. ...

— Complete State of the Union Addresses from 1790 to the Present • Various

... wife, Edmund and Margaret Irish, it must have been nothing less than a slow torture to one whose fine nature had been used for years to the conditions of civil and ecclesiastical dignity and of a large circle of admirable friends. And it was a spiritual victory, second only to that of his glorious martyrdom (Oct. 16, 1555), when the close of that dreary time found the once obdurate and vexatious Mrs Irish won by Ridley's life to admiration and attachment, and also, as it would seem, to scriptural convictions.[7] But it was a still nobler ...

— Philippian Studies - Lessons in Faith and Love from St. Paul's Epistle to the Philippians • Handley C. G. Moule

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