Glory vs Might - 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.
(uncountable) Power, strength, force or influence held by a person or group.
(uncountable) Physical strength.
(uncountable) The ability to do something.
Mighty; powerful; possible.
(lb) Used to indicate conditional or possible actions.
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, title= (lb) (may) Used to indicate permission in past tense.
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(lb) (may) Used to indicate possibility in past tense.
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As nouns the difference between glory and might
is that glory is great beauty or splendour, that is so overwhelming it is considered powerful while might is (uncountable) power, strength, force or influence held by a person or group.As verbs the difference between glory and might
is that glory is to exult with joy; to rejoice while might is (lb) used to indicate conditional or possible actions.As an adjective might is
mighty; powerful; possible.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.
might
English
(wikipedia might)Etymology 1
From (etyl) might, myghte, (also maught, macht, maht), from (etyl) miht, mieht, meaht, .Noun
(-)- He pushed with all his might , but still it would not move.
Adjective
(er)Etymology 2
From (etyl) meahte, from magan, whence English may.Verb
(head)- The characterism of an honest man: He looks not to what he might do, but what he should.
Fantasy of navigation, passage=It is tempting to speculate about the incentives or compulsions that might explain why anyone would take to the skies in [the] basket [of a balloon]: perhaps out of a desire to escape the gravity of this world or to get a preview of the next;
Mr. Pratt's Patients, chapter=1 , passage=I stumbled along through the young pines and huckleberry bushes. Pretty soon I struck into a sort of path that, I cal'lated, might lead to the road I was hunting for. It twisted and turned, and, the first thing I knew, made a sudden bend around a bunch of bayberry scrub and opened out into a big clear space like a lawn.}}
citation, passage=Meanwhile Nanny Broome was recovering from her initial panic and seemed anxious to make up for any kudos she might have lost, by exerting her personality to the utmost. She took the policeman's helmet and placed it on a chair, and unfolded his tunic to shake it and fold it up again for him.}}