gloriole
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of gloriole
1805–15; < Latin glōriola, equivalent to glōri ( a ) glory + -ola -ole 1
Example Sentences
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It is terribly cold to be for the future labouring only for the gloriole, after flattering oneself for a while that one was working for the public weal.’
From Critical Miscellanies (Vol. 2 of 3) Essay 3: Condorcet by Morley, John
There are two remarkable French words created by the Abb� de Saint Pierre, who passed his meritorious life in the contemplation of political morality and universal benevolence—bienfaisance and gloriole.
From Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 3 by Disraeli, Isaac
One served to explain the virtue most familiar to him—bienfaisance; and that irritable vanity which magnifies its ephemeral fame, the sage reduced to a mortifying diminutive—la gloriole!
From Literary Character of Men of Genius Drawn from Their Own Feelings and Confessions by Disraeli, Isaac
He invented gloriole as a contemptuous diminutive of glorie; to describe that vanity of some egotists, so proud of the small talents which they may have received from nature or from accident.
From Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 3 by Disraeli, Isaac
And Sappho, with that gloriole Of ebon hair on calmèd brows— O poet-woman! none forgoes The leap, attaining the repose.
From The Poetical Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Vol. I by Browning, Elizabeth Barrett
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