Gloria vs Glory - What's the difference?
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. Popular during the first half of the 20th century.
* 1835 Jacobus Flax , , October 1835, page 291:
* 1898 , You Never Can Tell , Act II:
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.
Glory is a related term of gloria.
Glory is a descendant of gloria.
As a proper noun Gloria
is {{given name|female|from=Latin}}. Popular during the first half of the 20th century.As a noun glory is
great beauty or splendour, that is so overwhelming it is considered powerful.As a verb glory is
to exult with joy; to rejoice.gloria
English
Proper noun
(en proper noun)- Miss Flax, the little thin sister, and Miss Gloria , the stout able-bodied sister, lifted up their hands and eyes in horror at the mere hint of a wet nurse.
- Crampton . - - - What's your name? I mean your pet name. They can't very well call you Sophronia.
- Gloria . Sophronia! My name is Gloria . I am always called by it.
- Crampton . Your name is Sophronia, girl: you were called after your aunt Sophronia, my sister: she gave you your first Bible with your name written in it.
- Gloria : Then my mother gave me a new name.
Anagrams
* ----glory
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(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.