glorify
verb (used with object)
to cause to be or treat as being more splendid, excellent, etc., than would normally be considered.
had glorified
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past perfectof glorify.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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Just two days before, that gleaming, handsome structure had seemed to glorify the family within, and they had glorified it.
From The New Yorker ● Jan. 22, 2017
It seemed in this play that he had glorified them just a trifle.
From Time Magazine Archive
He was born, as one should be, in Prussia, to a family which for generations had glorified the sword and service to the Fatherland, and nothing else.
From Time Magazine Archive
Said the Pope: he was pleased that God had glorified all these tongues.
From Time Magazine Archive
Both had interviewed Wyck, and that gentleman had glorified himself and posed as the martyr of a horrible conspiracy.
From Australia Revenged by pseud. Boomerang
