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Glory vs Esteem - What's the difference?

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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)
  • Great beauty or splendour, that is so overwhelming it is considered powerful.
  • * , chapter=5
  • , title= 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.}}
  • *{{quote-magazine, date=2014-06-14, volume=411, issue=8891, magazine=(The Economist)
  • , title= 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.}}
  • Honour, admiration, or distinction, accorded by common consent to a person or thing; high reputation; renown.
  • * (Edmund Spenser) (c.1552–1599)
  • Spread his glory through all countries wide.
  • That quality in a person or thing which secures general praise or honour.
  • * Sir (Philip Sidney) (1554-1586)
  • Think it no glory to swell in tyranny.
  • * (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
  • Jewels lose their glory if neglected.
  • * , chapter=4
  • , title= 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.}}
  • Worship or praise.
  • * Bible, (w) ii. 14
  • Glory to God in the highest.
  • Optical phenomenon caused by water droplets.
  • Victory; success.
  • * {{quote-news, year=2012, date=May 13, author=Alistair Magowan, title=Sunderland 0-1 Man Utd
  • , work=BBC Sport 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.}}
  • 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)
  • in glory of thy fortunes

    Verb

    (en-verb)
  • To exult with joy; to rejoice.
  • * 1891 :
  • 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.
  • To boast; to be proud.
  • esteem

    English

    Alternative forms

    * (archaic) * esteeme (obsolete)

    Noun

    (-)
  • favourable regard
  • Derived terms

    * self-esteem

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To set a high value on; to regard with respect or reverence.
  • * Bible, Job xxxvi. 19
  • Will he esteem thy riches?
  • * Tennyson
  • You talk kindlier: we esteem you for it.
  • To regard something as valuable; to prize.
  • To look upon something in a particular way.
  • Mary is an esteemed member of the community.
  • * Bible, Deuteronomy xxxii. 15
  • Then he forsook God, which made him, and lightly esteemed the Rock of his salvation.
  • * Bishop Gardiner
  • Thou shouldst (gentle reader) esteem his censure and authority to be of the more weighty credence.
  • * Hawthorne
  • Famous men, whose scientific attainments were esteemed hardly less than supernatural.
  • * 1843 , '', book 3, ch. V, ''The English
  • 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.
  • (obsolete) To judge; to estimate; to appraise
  • The Earth, which I esteem unable to reflect the rays of the Sun.

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