Glorified vs Edified - What's the difference?
glorified | edified |
(glorify)
transformed into something glorious (often used sarcastically)
:* The gyroscope is however merely a glorified spinning top ...
:* Voluntary thrift, embodied in industrial insurance, nurtured character, but social insurance was merely a glorified form of poor law legislation.
:* 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
(edify)
(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 [...].
As verbs the difference between glorified and edified
is that glorified is past tense of glorify while edified is past tense of edify.As adjectives the difference between glorified and edified
is that glorified is transformed into something glorious (often used sarcastically while edified is furnished with buildings.glorified
English
Verb
(head)- They sang hymns that glorified God.
Adjective
(en adjective)- Her teaching degree was little more than a glorified babysitting course.
- 1959 Andrew Gray, "A treatise on gyrostatics and rotational motion"
- 1986 Roy Lubove, "The Struggle for Social Security, 1900-1935"
- 2004 Lloyd Manning Wells, "From Anzio to the Alps: an American soldier's story"
