glorification

[glawr-uh-fi-key-shuhn, glohr-]

noun

1. a glorified or more splendid form of something.

2. the act of glorifying.

3. the state of being glorified.

4. exaltation to the glory of heaven.

Other Word Forms

• deglorification noun
• reglorification noun
• self-glorification noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of glorification¹

1425–75; late Middle English < Late Latin glōrificātiōn- (stem of glōrificātiō ), equivalent to glōrific ( āre ) to glorify + -ātiōn- -ation

Example Sentences

He called the first Gulf War “unjust” and, as the pacifist director of the Catholic Peace Coalition, led a fast against the war’s glorification.

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No amount of glorification will save the Constitution unless we address the underlying causes of what Yale Law School professor Jack Balkin calls “constitutional rot.”

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This was paired with "glorification and admiration of the policies and actions of Hitler and the German Nazi Party, including antisemitism, and of mass killers who had targeted black or Muslim communities".

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This was coupled, she said, with the "glorification and admiration of the policies and actions of Hitler and the German Nazi Party, including antisemitism, and of mass killers who had targeted black or Muslim communities".

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Rumela Sen, a South Asia expert at Columbia University, said it was "worrying" to see "an unprecedented glorification of the army as a voice of sanity and stability".

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