Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary - glorify
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transitive verb (-fied; -fying) Etymology: Middle English glorifien, from Anglo-French glorifier, from Late Latin glorificare, from gloria Date: 14th century 1. a. to make glorious by bestowing honor, praise, or admiration b. to elevate to celestial glory 2. to light up brilliantly 3. a. to represent as glorious ; extol a song ~ing romantic love b. to cause to be or seem to be better than the actual condition the new position is just a glorified version of the old stockroom job 4. to give glory to (as in worship) • glorification noun • glorifier noun ...Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary
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v.tr. (-ies, -ied) 1 exalt to heavenly glory; make glorious. 2 transform into something more splendid. 3 extol; praise. 4 (as glorified adj.) seeming or pretending to be more splendid than in reality (just a glorified office boy). Derivatives glorification n. glorifier n. Etymology: ME f. OF glorifier f. eccl.L glorificare f. LL glorificus f. L gloria glory ...Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference
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1. прославлять the names which glorified this age —- имена, прославившие наш век 2. превозносить, хвалить to glorify common life —- восхвалять простую жизнь 3. возвеличивать ...Новый большой англо-русский словарь
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v. 1) прославлять, восхвалять, окружать ореолом; возвеличивать 2) usu. past part.; coll. украшать ...Англо-русский словарь
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~ v 1 to make someone or something seem more important or better than they really are (films which glorify violence) 2 glorify God/the Lord etc to give praise and thanks to God - glorification n + of (the glorification of war) ...Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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