glorify
/ˈɡlɔːɹɪfaɪ/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: 3.05 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "Some movies glorify mobsters by making them seem like the cool kids around the block."
- "Historical dictators are glorified in some countries that are dictatorships and by some political radicals."
- "Thursday's long-awaited relocation fulfils a key pledge of the socialist government, which said Spain should not continue to glorify a fascist who ruled the country for nearly four decades."
Etymology
From Middle English glorifien, from Anglo-Norman and Old French glorifier, from Late Latin glōrificō, from Latin glōria + -ficō (“to make”). By surface analysis, glory + -fy. 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.