Word Finder - glory

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Great or overwhelming beauty or splendour.

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Honour, admiration, or distinction, accorded by common consent to a person or thing; high reputation; renown.

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That quality in a person or thing which secures general praise or honour.

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Worship or praise.

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An optical phenomenon, consisting of concentric rings and somewhat similar to a rainbow, caused by sunlight or moonlight interacting with the water droplets that compose mist or clouds, centered on the antisolar or antilunar point.

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• anticorona

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Victory; success.

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An emanation of light supposed to shine from beings that are specially holy. It is represented in art by rays of gold, or the like, proceeding from the head or body, or by a disk, or a mere line.

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The manifestation of the presence of God as perceived by humans in Abrahamic religions.

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Pride; boastfulness; arrogance.

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To exult with joy; to rejoice.

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To boast; to be proud.

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To shine radiantly.

Its glory shall be greater than that of the former temple, and in this place He will give peace.

For thine is the power and the glory, for ever and ever, Amen.'

Peace be in heaven and glory in the highest heaven.

At the height of its glory sudden and irretrievable ruin fell upon the Order.

The senate, as usual, took the lead in suggesting some such change in the constitution; and it besought Napoleon "to complete his work by rendering it, like his glory, immortal."

The substance will indeed remain, but in another form, another glory, another power " (De diligendo Deo, c. 10).

Faith in the nearness of Christ's second advent and the establishing of his reign of glory on the earth was undoubtedly a strong point in the primitive Christian Church.

The chief glory of the 14th century was St Catherine Benincasa.

Whilst other Christians, following St Paul, were content to do all things for the glory of God, Ignatius set himself and his followers to strive after the greater glory.

Whether tomorrow brings victory or defeat, the glory of our Russian arms is secure.

On the one hand, as a transcriber of the philo-Goth Cassiodorus, he magnifies the race of Alaric and Theodoric, and claims for them their full share, perhaps more than their full share, of glory in the past.

Her thirst for glory had long since been slaked, and she longed for peaceful enjoyment of the civic boons which he had conferred upon her in that greatest period of his life, the Consulate.

But the chief glory of her declining years was undoubtedly her splendid art.

Never would Ignatius have countenanced so perverted an idea as that the end justified the means, for with his spiritual light and zeal for God's glory he saw clearly that means in themselves unjust were opposed to the very end he held in view.

Probably also he had " in glory " in clause 8.

It is for you, Ministers, to consecrate him to the glory of the republic."

But the culminating glory of his reign was the restoration of the almost ruined papal dominion in Italy, by means of the highly-gifted Cardinal Albornoz.

All the actions of men are due to the furtherance of God's glory; if, then, there be sin, i.e.

The closing verses strike that deep note of absolute dependence on God, which is the glory of the religion of the Old Testament and its chief contribution to the spirit of the Gospels.

In its earliest form it ran simply - "Glor y be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost, world without end, Amen," or "Glory be to the Father, in (or through) the Son, and in (or through) the Holy Ghost."

All the glory and praise must go to the triune godhead.

It is the Father's love to the Son, which is heaven's glory, finding a lodgment on earth!

He alone--with his ideal of glory and grandeur developed in Italy and Egypt, his insane self-adulation, his boldness in crime and frankness in lying--he alone could justify what had to be done.

As the king could not abandon Portugal to itself he determined at first to send the prince thither as regent, but Dom Pedro had acquired such popularity by his conduct in the revolution, and had exhibited such a thirst for glory, that the king feared to trust his adventurous spirit in Europe, and decided to go himself.

May my chief aim be to live for thy glory.

He really was in love with the Tsar and the glory of the Russian arms and the hope of future triumph.

He passed the recently restored Beaumont Hotel, a beautiful structure that after several decades of disuse and deterioration had finally been returned to its past glory.

When it is merely a luminous disk round the head, it is called specifically a nimbus, while the combination of nimbus and aureole is called a glory.

From this early astrological use the form of "glory" or "nimbus" has been adapted or inherited under new beliefs.

The city must have gradually declined in the course of time; but the ruins of the Achaemenidae remained as a witness to its ancient glory.

The last twentyeight years of Bela's reign were mainly devoted to the reconstruction of his realm, which he accomplished with a singleminded thoroughness which has covered his name with glory.

For the Master hath sworn by His glory (` His Son,' below) touching His elect, that if there be more sinning after this day which He hath limited, they shall not obtain salvation.

It was at Pisa, in the church of Santa Cristina, on the fourth Sunday in Lent (April I), while rapt in ecstasy after the communion, that Catherine's greatest traditional glory befell her, viz.

There is no need to doubt the reality of Catherine's exaltation, but it should be remembered that she and her circle were Dominicans, and that the stigmata of St Francis of Assisi were considered the crowning glory of the saint, and hitherto the exclusive boast of the Franciscans.

It was with the aid of these youthful enthusiasts that Savonarola arranged the religious carnival of 1496, when the citizens gave their costliest possessions in alms to the poor, and tonsured monks, crowned with flowers, sang lauds and performed wild dances for the glory of God.

Francis owes the greater measure of his glory to the artists and men of letters who vied in celebrating his praises.

For a short time the glory of the Golden Horde was renewed, until it was finally crushed by Timur in 1395.

Thou only, Jesus Christ, with the Holy Ghost, art most high in the glory of God the Father.

Hence he never attained to that perfect idiomatic purity of style, which was the special glory of the early writers of comedy, Naevius and Plautus.

Letizia lived to witness the glory and the downfall of her great son, surviving Napoleon I.

The club and its members believe in the honor of boxing and see themselves as modern day gladiators preparing for their moment of glory.

Solid and dependable rather than particularly thrilling or exciting, a decent enough stab at hard rock glory.

His silence on the subject of Roman greatness and glory as contrasted with the prominence of these subjects in the poetry of men of provincial birth such as Ennius, Virgil and Horace, may be explained by the principle that familiarity had made the subject one of less wonder and novelty to him.

It was at this time that he wrote, primarily for the same body as his prayers, his morning, evening and midnight hymns, the first two of which, beginning "Awake, my soul, and with the sun" and "Glory to Thee, my God, this night," are now household words wherever the English tongue is spoken.

Cato felt that the record of Roman glory could not be isolated from the story of the other Italian communities, which, after fighting against Rome for their owil independence, shared with her the task of conquering the world.

Then follows the Lord's Prayer, almost exactly as in St Matthew, with a brief doxology - "for Thine is the power and the glory for ever."

A synod was held in 1532 at Chanforans in the valley of the Angrogne, where a new confession of faith was adopted, which recognized the doctrine of election, assimilated the practices of the Vaudois to those of the Swiss congregations, renounced for the future all recognition of the Roman communion, and established their own worship no longer as secret meetings of a faithful few but as public assemblies for the glory of God.

The quartet sound taps into the root of modern pop punk to create something not dissimilar to Fall Out Boy and New Found Glory.

If thou dost glory in thy God, and dost glory in thy God, and dost verily believe the promise that is made, command that these stones be bread.

The glory of the gardens must be the splendid Victorian glasshouses which have been lovingly restored, a unique feature.