glorify
verb (used with object)
to cause to be or treat as being more splendid, excellent, etc., than would normally be considered.
glorifies
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present tense formof glorify (3rd person singular).present tense
Used to describe things happening now or regularly.
Example Sentences
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Fittingly, “Becoming George” neither accuses nor glorifies its subject.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026
When a name that rings of so much death is enshrined in something as beautiful as art and history, it glorifies the name by association, stripping it of all the harm it’s caused.
From Salon ● Mar. 14, 2026
Even remembering how wide a beach used to be, or how the cliffs once withstood the tide, glorifies the notion that resilience is measured by our ability to remain unchanged.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 10, 2025
“He won’t play in a drama that glamorizes evil or glorifies violence. ‘I’m no nut on that,’ he says, ‘my pictures don’t have to carry a message — but they do have to say something.’
From New York Times ● Feb. 2, 2024
It is a narrative that practically glorifies Babylonia, making it the centre of the human race, and the spot from which they all migrated after the dispersion caused by the confusion of tongues.
From The Old Testament In the Light of The Historical Records and Legends of Assyria and Babylonia by Theophilus Goldridge Pinches
