As verbs the difference between glorified and edified
is that
glorified is (
glorify) while
edified is (
edify).
As adjectives the difference between glorified and edified
is that
glorified is transformed into something glorious (often used sarcastically) while
edified is (obsolete) furnished with buildings.
glorified English
Verb
( head)
(glorify)
- They sang hymns that glorified God.
Adjective
( en adjective)
transformed into something glorious (often used sarcastically)
- Her teaching degree was little more than a glorified babysitting course.
- 1959 Andrew Gray, "A treatise on gyrostatics and rotational motion"
:* The gyroscope is however merely a glorified spinning top ...
- 1986 Roy Lubove, "The Struggle for Social Security, 1900-1935"
:* Voluntary thrift, embodied in industrial insurance, nurtured character, but social insurance was merely a glorified form of poor law legislation.
- 2004 Lloyd Manning Wells, "From Anzio to the Alps: an American soldier's story"
:* If the captain was only a glorified first aid man as he claimed, the emphasis has to be on the glory he deserved for the way in which he did his job.
English sarcastic terms
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edified English
Verb
(head)
(edify)
Adjective
( en adjective)
(obsolete) Furnished with buildings.
*1590 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , III.1:
*:Long they thus travelled in friendly wise, / Through countreyes waste, and eke well edifyde [...].
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