glorification
[glawr-uh-fi-key-shuh n, glohr-]
- a glorified or more splendid form of something.
- the act of glorifying.
- the state of being glorified.
- exaltation to the glory of heaven.
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Origin of glorification
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Contemporary Examples
This was a series that traded the glorification of moral bankruptcy for family values.
The self-portrait as a glorification of the artist took off in the 1490s, according to Hall.
The glorification of merit, it turns out, has a profoundly threatening downside.
Historical Examples
I require the equality of salaries, the division of benefits, the glorification of the protectorate.
L'AssommoirEmile Zola
The World-Epos is after all only a file of the morning paper in a state of glorification.
Critical Miscellanies (Vol. 1 of 3)John Morley
Several other poets in Ferrara devoted their talents to her glorification.
Lucretia BorgiaFerdinand Gregorovius
His work is in much the glorification of revolutionary commonplace.
Critical Miscellanies, Vol. IJohn Morley
But this glorification of him wrought a momentous effect in the South.
The Negro and the NationGeorge S. Merriam
glorification
- the act of glorifying or state of being glorified
- informal an enhanced or favourably exaggerated version or account
- British informal a celebration
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Word Origin and History for glorification
n.
mid-15c. as a term in alchemy, "action of refining; state of being refined," from Late Latin glorificationem (nominative glorificatio), noun of action from past participle stem of glorificare (see glorify). From c.1500 in theology; general sense by mid-19c.
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