Definitions for glorify

glorify glo·ri·fy

Spelling: [glawr-uh-fahy, glohr-]
IPA: /ˈglɔr əˌfaɪ, ˈgloʊr-/

Glorify is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 125 anagrams from letters in glorify (fgilory).

Definitions for glorify

verb (used with object)

  1. to cause to be or treat as being more splendid, excellent, etc., than would normally be considered.
  2. to honor with praise, admiration, or worship; extol.
  3. to make glorious; invest with glory.
  4. to praise the glory of (God), especially as an act of worship.

Origin of glorify

1300-50; Middle English Old French glorifier Late Latin glōrificāre. See glory, -fy

Examples for glorify

The book has been written neither to aid the Abolitionist nor glorify the planter.

The good news for those who think such movies at once glorify and trivialize gun violence is that R.I.P.D. bombed.

To treat these lovers of violent death otherwise is only to glorify them.

Another reason I think people have children is to glorify their own ego.

We intend to glorify the love of danger, the custom of energy, the strengt of daring.

This appears to glorify a crime,” said Cheek, “as does the apparent emphasis on their illegal and ill-fated invasion.

You cannot glorify God more than by publishing good-will to one another.

No saga will ever glorify their deeds, no epic make them immortal.

To glorify labor and decry wealth is to multiply absurdities.

The wine world tends to glorify the winemaker when really it takes a team of hard-working people to tend vineyards and make wine.

Word Value for glorify
Scrable

14

Words with friends

15

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