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单词 glorify
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Definition of glorify in English:

glorify

verbglorifying, glorified, glorifies ˈɡlɔːrɪfʌɪˈɡlɔrəˌfaɪ
[with object]
  • 1Praise and worship (God)

    music is used to glorify God
    Example sentencesExamples
    • This is the best way to glorify the god or gods of their faith.
    • The essential point, in my estimation, is to recall we live in a society that glorifies and worships the famous.
    • With the Father and the Son he is worshiped and glorified.
    • We are changing God's glorious and holy celebration into an outreach enterprise, and He is no longer the center of attention; he's no longer honored and glorified in our worship.
    • I was just trying to point out that those songs are not right and are in no way glorifying to God.
    • Thereafter one should praise and glorify Allah in the best manner and recite the following Dua.
    • Our purpose - to glorify and love our Creator - is not based on any particular state of our biological development.
    • Invoking and glorifying Him, praising and thanking Him and kneeling and prostrating before Him are the practical manifestations of worship.
    • Our culture glorifies the young, strong and beautiful.
    • It is designed to exalt Christ and glorify him in the minds and hearts of men and women, boys and girls.
    • With all her heart and soul, Mary magnified and glorified the Lord by proclaiming his greatness.
    • Then the shepherds returned glorifying and praising God.
    • We see this as a long-term commitment that will glorify God and bless the people.
    • Then the world will see our good works and glorify our Father who is in Heaven.
    • The songs that you are singing are not right and do not glorify God in any way.
    • He taught me to put God first in my life and to glorify his name.
    • They will honour and glorify the Lord Jesus who is worthy!
    • The prayer times reflected the culture of this conference - seeking the presence of God and desiring to glorify him.
    • On that day the distance will be closed and the entire redeemed creation will gratefully praise and glorify God.
    • We glorify him when we praise him, recount his blessings to us, and thank him for them.
    • It glorifies celebrities, extols riches and promotes glamour.
    • And the shepherds returned, glorifying and praising God for all the things that they had heard and seen, as it was told unto them.
    • To glorify God or praise Him is to put one's request to Him, because He is aware of our needs and He responds to our glorification with grace and compassion.
    Synonyms
    give praise to, praise, extol, exalt, laud, worship, revere, reverence, venerate, pay homage/tribute to, honour, adore, thank, give thanks to, bless
    archaic magnify
    1. 1.1 Acknowledge and reveal the majesty and splendour of (God) by one's actions.
      God can be glorified through a life of scholarship

      做学问也可以展现上帝的荣耀。

      Example sentencesExamples
      • Here is an extract from his writings on the theme of faith glorifying God.
      • There are positive aspects to his book, such as his emphasis on the need to glorify God in all that we do.
      • Do you not see that everyone in the heavens and Earth glorifies God, as do the birds with their outspread wings?
      • Determined to glorify God with her life, she willingly set aside one objective after another until she discovered that only in God's time and way could her deepest desires be fulfilled.
      • One is the attitude of excellence, you know, to seek to excel and glorify God with the gifts and talents and abilities that he has given us.
      • But when we and they share a common love and awe for God, we augment the sanctity of the world in glorifying God among the multitudes of peoples.
      • Working for the church is a ministry, not a career; one does it to glorify God, not for remuneration.
      • How exciting it is to use our spiritual gifts to glorify God and to grow to know the heart of a servant.
      • Adam and Eve were not only to glorify God in behavior, but they were to offer intelligent glory and praise to God.
      • First, art offers multiple, rich, and layered ways of speaking about and glorifying God, since art is unlimited in its range and expression.
      • The purpose of marriage is to glorify God as is taught by creation, redemption and eschatology.
      • Your end as man - who is soul as well as body - is to glorify God and enjoy him for ever.
      • Essentially, church leaders are asking what it costs to operate the ministry that can glorify God.
  • 2Describe or represent as admirable, especially unjustifiably.

    (尤指不正当地)美化

    a football video glorifying violence

    一部美化暴力的足球录像。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • It's undeniable that this is a genre of work that could be thought of as dangerous, glorifying violence and criminality.
    • We economists emphasize efficiency over equity, glorify greed, and exalt the achievements of free markets, to name just a few.
    • I wasn't interested in glorifying the violence, I was interested in showing it as I felt it growing up and as I saw it.
    • But, at the same time, the cancers are helped to metastasise by a culture that too often glorifies delinquency, misogyny, drugdealing and violence.
    • Our television shows, our video games, our music, and our movies all glorify violence.
    • The good thing is that he doesn't glorify the old violence.
    • It has glorified this violence in books, films and newspapers.
    • The film does not glorify war and certainly does not present its characters as heroes.
    • The historical quaintness described at each river-side town the men pass glorifies the grandeur of a long lost Britain.
    • Officers believe it glorifies football violence and it is understood that they are probing the legality of the video.
    • But in our zeal to do that, we go after everything that resembles violence or seems to glorify it.
    • His fame comes from films that, in general, glorify violence and backwardness.
    • He is leading an initiative to rewrite school books which he says unjustly glorify the partisans who struggled against fascism during World War Two.
    • Add to this a culture that glorifies violence and brutality, and the mix becomes explosive.
    • The majority of the film is set in Connecticut, and the production design is admirable, since it does not attempt to glorify the characters' lower class surroundings.
    • No, I think it glorifies football violence and the timing of it couldn't be worse.
    • After the war they were used to make films which glorified communism.
    • A text purporting to describe a battle may have been composed to glorify the victor or excuse the loser.
    • But he dismisses criticism that the film glorifies violence and highlights the futility of life in the underworld.
    • In fact, I would say much of television does glorify violence.
    Synonyms
    ennoble, exalt, elevate, lift up, add dignity to, dignify, add lustre to, add distinction to, enhance, increase, augment, promote, boost
    praise, sing/sound the praises of, celebrate, honour, extol, laud, eulogize, hymn, lionize, acclaim, applaud, hail
    glamorize, aggrandize, idealize, romanticize, put on a pedestal, enshrine, apotheosize, canonize, immortalize
    British informal big up
    dated cry up
    rare emblazon, panegyrize, heroize

Derivatives

  • glorifier

  • noun ˈɡlɔːrɪfʌɪəˈɡlɔrəˌfaɪ(ə)r
    • For those of us who aren't fans of the hot-tempered, English language-butchering, xenophobic glorifier of fighting, his dismissal will not come soon enough.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Some initial on-premise support, like back bar glorifiers, are planned, but the major support is coming through strong ad placements male-focused magazines.
      • And you have to wonder whether his glorifiers are just as dense, or deeply cynical, or living on a different planet.

Origin

Middle English: from Old French glorifier, from ecclesiastical Latin glorificare, from late Latin glorificus, from Latin gloria 'glory'.

Definition of glorify in US English:

glorify

verbˈɡlôrəˌfīˈɡlɔrəˌfaɪ
[with object]
  • 1Praise and worship (God)

    music is used to glorify God
    Example sentencesExamples
    • And the shepherds returned, glorifying and praising God for all the things that they had heard and seen, as it was told unto them.
    • With all her heart and soul, Mary magnified and glorified the Lord by proclaiming his greatness.
    • They will honour and glorify the Lord Jesus who is worthy!
    • Then the world will see our good works and glorify our Father who is in Heaven.
    • I was just trying to point out that those songs are not right and are in no way glorifying to God.
    • Invoking and glorifying Him, praising and thanking Him and kneeling and prostrating before Him are the practical manifestations of worship.
    • Our culture glorifies the young, strong and beautiful.
    • Thereafter one should praise and glorify Allah in the best manner and recite the following Dua.
    • It is designed to exalt Christ and glorify him in the minds and hearts of men and women, boys and girls.
    • Our purpose - to glorify and love our Creator - is not based on any particular state of our biological development.
    • We are changing God's glorious and holy celebration into an outreach enterprise, and He is no longer the center of attention; he's no longer honored and glorified in our worship.
    • On that day the distance will be closed and the entire redeemed creation will gratefully praise and glorify God.
    • The prayer times reflected the culture of this conference - seeking the presence of God and desiring to glorify him.
    • With the Father and the Son he is worshiped and glorified.
    • The essential point, in my estimation, is to recall we live in a society that glorifies and worships the famous.
    • We glorify him when we praise him, recount his blessings to us, and thank him for them.
    • He taught me to put God first in my life and to glorify his name.
    • This is the best way to glorify the god or gods of their faith.
    • The songs that you are singing are not right and do not glorify God in any way.
    • It glorifies celebrities, extols riches and promotes glamour.
    • To glorify God or praise Him is to put one's request to Him, because He is aware of our needs and He responds to our glorification with grace and compassion.
    • Then the shepherds returned glorifying and praising God.
    • We see this as a long-term commitment that will glorify God and bless the people.
    Synonyms
    give praise to, praise, extol, exalt, laud, worship, revere, reverence, venerate, pay homage to, pay tribute to, honour, adore, thank, give thanks to, bless
    1. 1.1 Acknowledge and reveal the majesty and splendor of (God) by one's actions.
      God can be glorified through a life of scholarship

      做学问也可以展现上帝的荣耀。

      Example sentencesExamples
      • How exciting it is to use our spiritual gifts to glorify God and to grow to know the heart of a servant.
      • Determined to glorify God with her life, she willingly set aside one objective after another until she discovered that only in God's time and way could her deepest desires be fulfilled.
      • Essentially, church leaders are asking what it costs to operate the ministry that can glorify God.
      • Your end as man - who is soul as well as body - is to glorify God and enjoy him for ever.
      • But when we and they share a common love and awe for God, we augment the sanctity of the world in glorifying God among the multitudes of peoples.
      • Working for the church is a ministry, not a career; one does it to glorify God, not for remuneration.
      • Adam and Eve were not only to glorify God in behavior, but they were to offer intelligent glory and praise to God.
      • Here is an extract from his writings on the theme of faith glorifying God.
      • The purpose of marriage is to glorify God as is taught by creation, redemption and eschatology.
      • Do you not see that everyone in the heavens and Earth glorifies God, as do the birds with their outspread wings?
      • There are positive aspects to his book, such as his emphasis on the need to glorify God in all that we do.
      • One is the attitude of excellence, you know, to seek to excel and glorify God with the gifts and talents and abilities that he has given us.
      • First, art offers multiple, rich, and layered ways of speaking about and glorifying God, since art is unlimited in its range and expression.
  • 2Describe or represent as admirable, especially unjustifiably.

    (尤指不正当地)美化

    a football video glorifying violence

    一部美化暴力的足球录像。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • But he dismisses criticism that the film glorifies violence and highlights the futility of life in the underworld.
    • The majority of the film is set in Connecticut, and the production design is admirable, since it does not attempt to glorify the characters' lower class surroundings.
    • I wasn't interested in glorifying the violence, I was interested in showing it as I felt it growing up and as I saw it.
    • The good thing is that he doesn't glorify the old violence.
    • In fact, I would say much of television does glorify violence.
    • No, I think it glorifies football violence and the timing of it couldn't be worse.
    • We economists emphasize efficiency over equity, glorify greed, and exalt the achievements of free markets, to name just a few.
    • Add to this a culture that glorifies violence and brutality, and the mix becomes explosive.
    • The film does not glorify war and certainly does not present its characters as heroes.
    • It's undeniable that this is a genre of work that could be thought of as dangerous, glorifying violence and criminality.
    • The historical quaintness described at each river-side town the men pass glorifies the grandeur of a long lost Britain.
    • Officers believe it glorifies football violence and it is understood that they are probing the legality of the video.
    • He is leading an initiative to rewrite school books which he says unjustly glorify the partisans who struggled against fascism during World War Two.
    • His fame comes from films that, in general, glorify violence and backwardness.
    • After the war they were used to make films which glorified communism.
    • But in our zeal to do that, we go after everything that resembles violence or seems to glorify it.
    • It has glorified this violence in books, films and newspapers.
    • But, at the same time, the cancers are helped to metastasise by a culture that too often glorifies delinquency, misogyny, drugdealing and violence.
    • Our television shows, our video games, our music, and our movies all glorify violence.
    • A text purporting to describe a battle may have been composed to glorify the victor or excuse the loser.
    Synonyms
    ennoble, exalt, elevate, lift up, add dignity to, dignify, add lustre to, add distinction to, enhance, increase, augment, promote, boost

Origin

Middle English: from Old French glorifier, from ecclesiastical Latin glorificare, from late Latin glorificus, from Latin gloria ‘glory’.

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