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Glorious   /glˈɔriəs/   Listen
adjective
Glorious  adj.  
1.
Exhibiting attributes, qualities, or acts that are worthy of or receive glory; noble; praiseworthy; excellent; splendid; illustrious; inspiring admiration; as, glorious deeds. "These are thy glorious works, Parent of good!"
2.
Eager for glory or distinction; haughty; boastful; ostentatious; vainglorious. (Obs.) "Most miserable Is the desire that's glorious."
3.
Ecstatic; hilarious; elated with drink. (Colloq.) "kings may be blest, but Tam was glorious, O'er all the ills of life victorious." "During his office treason was no crime, The sons of Belial had a glorious time."
Synonyms: Eniment; noble; excellent; renowned; illustrious; celebrated; magnificent; grand; splendid. "Sing ye to the Lord, for he hath triumphed gloriously." "I speak it not gloriously, nor out of affectation."





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"Glorious" Quotes from Famous Books



... as I thought of all the gloom, the darkness and the silence of the narrow house; and felt sad when I reflected that all men must die. Faith then had not lifted her trusting eye beyond the portals of the tomb, or illuminated its confines by the glorious light of the gospel. And when in the winter of 1816 a fatal fever raged, and the angel of death flapped his broad wings over our little village, and one after another was cut suddenly down by his stealthy darts, we could hardly realize that it was directed by the hand of a ...
— Withered Leaves from Memory's Garland • Abigail Stanley Hanna
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... she ran away more and more to the upper world, and spent her days in roaming over the moors chasing the birds and butterflies, or, when she was tired, lying on a bank of moss and ferns, gazing up at the glorious sun, and basking ...
— Cornwall's Wonderland • Mabel Quiller-Couch
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... our glorious land so fair, Whose foot is at the door; Even so my song shall melt into the air, And die ...
— The Coming of the Princess and Other Poems • Kate Seymour Maclean
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... mad, you are beside yourself. Know you not that Freedom is a glorious thing and of great worth? But that what I desired at random I should wish at random to come to pass, so far from being noble, may ...
— The Golden Sayings of Epictetus • Epictetus
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... of the feast the caliph called upon the poet, Abul Atayah, [Footnote: A'bul Ata'yah.] and said, "O prince of verse makers, show us thy skill. Describe in verse this glad and glorious feast." ...
— Fifty Famous People • James Baldwin
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