Glory vs Future - 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.
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* (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
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, title= Worship or praise.
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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.
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To boast; to be proud.
The time ahead; those moments yet to be experienced.
Something that will happen in moments yet to come.
Goodness in what is yet to come/Something to look forward to.
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, title= (grammar) Verb tense used to talk about events that will happen in the future; future tense.
(finance) A standardized, tradable agreement between two parties that one will sell and the other will buy a specific commodity at a specific later date and a specific price.
Having to do with or occurring in the future.
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*:So this was my future home, I thought! Certainly it made a brave picture. I had seen similar ones fired-in on many a Heidelberg stein. Backed by towering hills,a sky of palest Gobelin flecked with fat, fleecy little clouds, it in truth looked a dear little city; the city of one's dreams.
As nouns the difference between glory and future
is that glory is great beauty or splendour, that is so overwhelming it is considered powerful while future is the time ahead; those moments yet to be experienced.As a verb glory
is to exult with joy; to rejoice.As an adjective future is
having to do with or occurring in the future.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.
future
English
(wikipedia future)Noun
Revenge of the nerds, passage=Think of banking today and the image is of grey-suited men in towering skyscrapers. Its future , however, is being shaped in converted warehouses and funky offices in San Francisco, New York and London, where bright young things in jeans and T-shirts huddle around laptops, sipping lattes or munching on free food.}}