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Goriest vs Gloriest - What's the difference?

goriest | gloriest |

As an adjective goriest

is superlative of gory.

As a verb gloriest is

archaic second-person singular of glory.

goriest

English

Adjective

(head)
  • (gory)
  • Anagrams

    * *

    gory

    English

    Adjective

    (er)
  • covered with blood, very bloody
  • unpleasant
  • Anagrams

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    gloriest

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (archaic) (glory)

  • glory

    English

    (wikipedia glory)

    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

    Verb

    (en-verb)
  • To exult with joy; to rejoice.
  • * 1891 :
  • 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.
  • To boast; to be proud.