glorify
Verb
Verb Forms: glorified, glorifying, glorifies
- To bestow honor, praise, or worship upon; to make glorious.
- praise, glorify, or honor
- "glorify one's spouse's cooking"
- bestow glory upon
- elevate or idealize, in allusion to Christ's transfiguration
- cause to seem more splendid
- "You are glorifying a rather mediocre building"
- To exalt, or give glory or praise to (something or someone).
- To make (something) appear to be more glorious than it is; regard something or someone as excellent baselessly.
- To worship or extol.
Examples
- Historical dictators are glorified in some countries that are dictatorships and by some political radicals.
- Many Scrabble players glorify the strategic mind that can find a seven-letter word on a tight board.
- Some movies glorify mobsters by making them seem like the cool kids around the block.
Origin / Etymology
From Middle English glorifien, from Anglo-Norman and Old French glorifier, from Late Latin glorificō, from Latin gloria + faciō (“to make”). Displaced native Middle English wuldrien (“to glorify”), from Old English wuldrian as well as Middle English stellifien (“to glorify, make stellar”), from Old French stellifier (Medieval Latin stellificāre); see stellify.
Synonyms
exalt, extol, laud, proclaim, spiritualize, transfigure, mythify
Scrabble Score: 14
glorify: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordglorify: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
glorify: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary