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[ UK /ɡlˈɔːɹɪfˌa‍ɪ/ ]
[ US /ˈɡɫɔɹəˌfaɪ/ ]
VERB
  1. elevate or idealize, in allusion to Christ's transfiguration
  2. praise, glorify, or honor
    extol the virtues of one's children
    glorify one's spouse's cooking
  3. cause to seem more splendid
    You are glorifying a rather mediocre building
  4. bestow glory upon
    The victory over the enemy glorified the Republic

How To Use glorify In A Sentence

  • Your end as man - who is soul as well as body - is to glorify God and enjoy him for ever.
  • (Bush and Dr Cheney legacy), not just lock it up in cupboards. another inspiration for my writing is this innovative musician and activist fighting racism, Islamo-phobia and injustice head on through his "Rhythm and beats". although his documentaries and DIY cook book music genre are termed irreverence bordering treason against queen and country and glorifying terrorism among the Pakistani and Muslim youth of Britain, But it is merely exposing the truth about the sentiments of equality, discrimination, integration and assimilation. Pak Tea House
  • 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.
  • It is designed to exalt Christ and glorify him in the minds and hearts of men and women, boys and girls.
  • He prays that God would give him strength to praise him: "Let thy judgments help me; let all ordinances and all providences" (both are God's judgments) "further me in glorifying God; let them be the matter of my praise and let them help to fit me for that work. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume III (Job to Song of Solomon)
  • It had made her radiant, glorifying her substance without cavil or complaint. SACRAMENT
  • Wall is a tremendously challenging artist, as his stuff essentially mocks both the Cartier-Bresson 'Decisive Moment' as self-glorifying bushwa, and the Modernist painters' photography-induced flight from Realism as cowardice. Kenneth Hite's Journal
  • It is ironic that in an issue devoted to the preservation of salmon you glorify the ritualistic hunting and consumption of them.
  • By charms that glorify the place and every charm outvie. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
  • The prayer times reflected the culture of this conference - seeking the presence of God and desiring to glorify him.
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