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Glorification   /glˌɔrəfɪkˈeɪʃən/  /glˌɔrɪfɪkˈeɪʃən/   Listen
Glorification

noun
1.
A state of high honor.  Synonym: glory.
2.
A portrayal of something as ideal.  Synonyms: idealisation, idealization.
3.
The act of glorifying (as in worship).





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"Glorification" Quotes from Famous Books



... what happiness it is to bear this pain!" There can be no more frightful words, words pregnant with a blacker pessimism. Happy to suffer, O Lord! but why, and to what unknown and senseless end? Where is the reason in this useless cruelty, in this revolting glorification of suffering, when from the whole of humanity there ascends but one desperate longing ...
— The Three Cities Trilogy, Complete - Lourdes, Rome and Paris • Emile Zola
... consequences, from which the most pure need not turn away." In another paper in the same number the reviewer speaks of some one who "writes with the pure poetry of Nathaniel Hawthorne." As I have entered upon the subject of glorification, I will continue a little. From London an American traveler writes to Mr. Hawthorne: "A great day I spent with Sir William Hamilton, and two blessed evenings with De Quincey and his daughters. In De Quincey's house yours ...
— Memories of Hawthorne • Rose Hawthorne Lathrop
... divine protection. What the moral government of things meant when it was first asserted was that Jehovah expressly directed the destinies of heathen nations and the course of nature itself for the final glorification of the Jews. ...
— The Life of Reason • George Santayana
... witness of God in the soul, and in the history of man's moral life, Elsmere turned to the glorification of Experience, 'of that unvarying and rational order of the world which has been the appointed instrument of man's training ...
— Robert Elsmere • Mrs. Humphry Ward
... and when they rise on their feet they show a human face, and, in fact, are men." The contrast had existed for generations. The material misery caused by the wars of the great Louis deepened the dark side, and the lustre of genius consecrated to the glorification of traditional authority and the order of the hour heightened the brightness of the bright side, until the old contrast was suddenly seen by a few startled eyes, and the new and deepest problem, destined to strain our civilization to a degree that not many have even now conceived, ...
— The Great Events by Famous Historians, v. 13 • Various


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