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

Noun

(en noun)

Some kind of divine or supernatural aid, or reward.

A pronouncement invoking divine aid.

*, chapter=5

, title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=Then everybody once more knelt, and soon the blessing was pronounced. The choir and the clergy trooped out slowly, […], down the nave to the western door. […] At a seemingly immense distance the surpliced group stopped to say the last prayer.}}

Good fortune.

(paganism) A modern pagan ceremony.

The act of declaring or bestowing favor; approval.

A thing one is glad of.

A prayer before a meal; grace.

A group of unicorns.

* 2008 , Betsy Schiffman, " Time To Trash the Intellectual Property System, Says Report", Wired , 11 September 2008:

And since we’re laying out our wishes, we’d also like a blessing of unicorns and one million dollars.

* 2009 , Andrew Orlowski, " Facebook music dashboard: Revenue at last?", The Register , 13 September 2011:

Then a blessing of unicorns charged into the studio, and I was carried away to be re-educated.

* 2011 , Suzette Mayr, Monoceros , Coach House Books (2011), ISBN 9781552452417, page 94:

She just wants to talk to her friends on www.unicornwillsaveus.com or write in her journal or flump on her bedroom floor with her blessing of unicorns: her posters, figurines, stickers, temporary tattoos of anatomically correct unicorns.