Definition of Glorying

1. Verb. (present participle of glory) ¹

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Definition of Glorying

1. glory [v] - See also: glory

Lexicographical Neighbors of Glorying

gloriousnesses
glory-hole
glory-holes
glory-of-the-snow
glory box
glory boxes
glory days
glory fern
glory holes
glory lily
glory pea
gloryholers
glorying (current term)
gloss
gloss-
gloss over
glossa
glossae
glossagra
glossal
glossalgia
glossanthrax
glossarial
glossarially
glossaries
glossarist
glossarists

Literary usage of Glorying

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the First Epistle of Paul to the by Albert Barnes (1841)
"His glorying, or boasting, or joying, as it may be more properly rendered ... 15 he had intimated that he had cause of " glorying," and that that cause was ..."

2. A Critical Exposition of the Third Chapter of St. Paul's Epistle to the by James Morison (1866)
"There is a befitting, as well as an unbefitting, glorying. ... 17, "I have therefore glorying through Jesus Christ in those things that pertain to God. ..."

3. Chronological History of the West Indies by Thomas Southey (1827)
"The ringleaders were put to the torture, which they bore with 'fortitude, glorying in what they were about to execute. The population of Surinam and Berbice ..."

4. Sermons by Matthew Simpson (1885)
"glorying IN THE CROSS. "But God forbid that I should glory, save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom the world is crucified unto me, ..."

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