Glory vs Esteem - What's the difference?
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Great beauty or splendour, that is so overwhelming it is considered powerful.
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, title= Honour, admiration, or distinction, accorded by common consent to a person or thing; high reputation; renown.
* (Edmund Spenser) (c.1552–1599)
That quality in a person or thing which secures general praise or honour.
* Sir (Philip Sidney) (1554-1586)
* (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
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, title= Worship or praise.
* Bible, (w) ii. 14
Optical phenomenon caused by water droplets.
Victory; success.
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, work=BBC Sport An emanation of light supposed to proceed from beings of peculiar sanctity. It is represented in art by rays of gold, or the like, proceeding from the head or body, or by a disk, or a mere line.
(label) Pride; boastfulness; arrogance.
* (George Chapman) (1559-1634)
To exult with joy; to rejoice.
* 1891 :
To boast; to be proud.
favourable regard
To set a high value on; to regard with respect or reverence.
* Bible, Job xxxvi. 19
* Tennyson
To regard something as valuable; to prize.
To look upon something in a particular way.
* Bible, Deuteronomy xxxii. 15
* Bishop Gardiner
* Hawthorne
* 1843 , '', book 3, ch. V, ''The English
(obsolete) To judge; to estimate; to appraise
In obsolete terms the difference between glory and esteem
is that glory is pride; boastfulness; arrogance while esteem is to judge; to estimate; to appraise.As nouns the difference between glory and esteem
is that glory is great beauty or splendour, that is so overwhelming it is considered powerful while esteem is favourable regard.As verbs the difference between glory and esteem
is that glory is to exult with joy; to rejoice while esteem is to set a high value on; to regard with respect or reverence.glory
English
(wikipedia glory)Noun
(glories)The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=He was thinking; but the glory of the song, the swell from the great organ, the clustered lights, […], the height and vastness of this noble fane, its antiquity and its strength—all these things seemed to have their part as causes of the thrilling emotion that accompanied his thoughts.}}
It's a gas, passage=One of the hidden glories of Victorian engineering is proper drains. Isolating a city’s effluent and shipping it away in underground sewers has probably saved more lives than any medical procedure except vaccination.}}
- Spread his glory through all countries wide.
- Think it no glory to swell in tyranny.
- Jewels lose their glory if neglected.
Mr. Pratt's Patients, passage=Then he commenced to talk, really talk. and inside of two flaps of a herring's fin he had me mesmerized, like Eben Holt's boy at the town hall show. He talked about the ills of humanity, and the glories of health and Nature and service and land knows what all.}}
- Glory to God in the highest.
citation, passage=But, with United fans in celebratory mood as it appeared their team might snatch glory , they faced an anxious wait as City equalised in stoppage time.}}
- in glory of thy fortunes
Verb
(en-verb)- He says he glories in what happened, and that good may be done indirectly; but I wish he would not so wear himself out now he is getting old, and would leave such pigs to their wallowing.
esteem
English
Alternative forms
* (archaic) * esteeme (obsolete)Noun
(-)Derived terms
* self-esteemVerb
(en verb)- Will he esteem thy riches?
- You talk kindlier: we esteem you for it.
- Mary is an esteemed member of the community.
- Then he forsook God, which made him, and lightly esteemed the Rock of his salvation.
- Thou shouldst (gentle reader) esteem his censure and authority to be of the more weighty credence.
- Famous men, whose scientific attainments were esteemed hardly less than supernatural.
- And greatly do I respect the solid character, — a blockhead, thou wilt say; yes, but a well- conditioned blockhead, and the best-conditioned, — who esteems all ‘Customs once solemnly acknowledged’ to be ultimate, divine, and the rule for a man to walk by, nothing doubting, not inquiring farther.
- The Earth, which I esteem unable to reflect the rays of the Sun.