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Elevation vs Gloriousness - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between elevation and gloriousness

is that elevation is the act of raising from a lower place, condition, or quality to a higher; said of material things, persons, the mind, the voice, etc.; as, the elevation of grain; elevation to a throne; elevation to sainthood; elevation of mind, thoughts, or character while gloriousness is glory, the state or quality of being glorious.

elevation

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • The act of raising from a lower place, condition, or quality to a higher; said of material things, persons, the mind, the voice, etc.; as, the elevation of grain; elevation to a throne; elevation to sainthood; elevation of mind, thoughts, or character.
  • The condition of being or feeling elevated; heightened; exaltation.
  • That which is raised up or elevated; an elevated place or station; as, an elevation of the ground; a hill.
  • The distance of a celestial object above the horizon, or the arc of a vertical circle intercepted between it and the horizon; altitude; as, the elevation of the pole, or of a star.
  • The angle which the style makes with the substylar line.
  • The movement of the axis of a piece in a vertical plane; also, the angle of elevation, that is, the angle between the axis of the piece and the line of sight; distinguished from direction.
  • (lb) A geometrical projection of a building, or other object, on a plane perpendicular to the horizon; orthographic projection on a vertical plane; called by the ancients the orthography.
  • (lb) The raising of the —representing Christ’s body—in a mass or Holy Communion service.

    • Related terms

    * elevate * elevator * overelevation

    Antonyms

    * disgust * demotion * depression * diminishment * reduction

    gloriousness

    English

    Noun

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  • glory, the state or quality of being glorious
  • *{{quote-book, year=1864, author=George MacDonald, title=A Hidden Life and Other Poems, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=Wakes within, the ancient mind For a gloriousness defined: As she sought and knew your pleasure,-- Wiling with a dancing measure, Underneath your closed eyes She calls the shapes of clouded skies; White forms flushing hyacinthine Twine in curvings labyrinthine; Seem with godlike graceful feet, For such mazy motion meet, To press from air each lambent note, On whose throbbing fire they float; With an airy wishful gait On each others' motion wait; Naked arms and vesture free Fill up the dance of harmony. }}
  • *{{quote-book, year=1900, author=Various, title=Sacred Books of the East, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=These two variegated, great goddesses striving for gloriousness , the golden ones who move crookedly, have approached thy sacrificial grass. }}
  • * {{quote-news, year=2000, date=January 21, author=Chuck Shepherd, title=News of the Weird, work=Chicago Reader citation
    • , passage=Said the artist, "I'm celebrating the gloriousness of putrefaction." }}