Crossword clues for gloried
gloried
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Glory \Glo"ry\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Gloried; p. pr. & vb. n. Glorying.] [OE. glorien, OF. glorier, fr. L. gloriari, fr. gloria glory. See Glory, n.]
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To exult with joy; to rejoice.
Glory ye in his holy name.
--Ps. cv.? -
To boast; to be proud.
God forbid that I should glory, save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ.
--Gal. vi. 14No one . . . should glory in his prosperity.
--Richardson.
Gloried \Glo"ried\, a. [See Glory.]
Illustrious; honorable; noble. [Obs.]
--Milton.
Wiktionary
vb. (en-past of: glory)
WordNet
See glory
n. a state of high honor; "he valued glory above life itself" [syn: glorification]
brilliant radiant beauty; "the glory of the sunrise" [syn: resplendence, resplendency]
an indication of radiant light drawn around the head of a saint [syn: aura, aureole, halo, nimbus, gloriole]
[also: gloried]
v. rejoice proudly
[also: gloried]
Usage examples of "gloried".
The republic gloried in her generous policy, and was frequently rewarded by the merit and services of her adopted sons.
East gloried in the singular advantage that Constantinople was never profaned by the worship of idols.
The Consubstantialists, who by their success have deserved and obtained the title of Catholics, gloried in the simplicity and steadiness of their own creed, and insulted the repeated variations of their adversaries, who were destitute of any certain rule of faith.
Alexandria, which claimed his peculiar protection, gloried in the name of the city of Serapis.
Barbarians, who gloried in the Gothic name, were irregularly spread from the woody shores of Dalmatia, to the walls of Constantinople.
He gloried in the arbitrary proscription of four thousand seven hundred citizens.
A fair and noble widow had accompanied Constantine in his exile to the Isle of Lesbos, and Sclerena gloried in the appellation of his mistress.
I am confident that they gloried in their affinity to the apostle of the Gentiles.
The naive frankness of the age, both when it gloried in the flesh and when it reproved sin, gives a full-blooded complexion to that time that is lacking now.
Luther proclaimed that chastity was impossible, while the humanists gloried in the flesh.