(n.) A doxology (beginning Gloria Patri, Glory be to the Father), sung or said at the end of the Psalms in the service of the Roman Catholic and other churches.
(n.) A portion of the Mass (Gloria in Excelsis Deo, Glory be to God on high), and also of the communion service in some churches. In the Episcopal Church the version in English is used.
(n.) The musical setting of a gloria.
Example Sentences:
(1) Arriving at reasoned positions on the ethical issues in the care of older women leads to agreement with Gloria Steinem that women may be the one group that grows more radical with age.
(2) The same refusal to back down characterised his dispute with Norman Mailer, whose attitudes towards women had brought rebukes from Gloria Steinem and Kate Millett.
(3) As good a way as any would have been to have followed the Twitter feed of one of his backbench MPs, Gloria De Piero, who was tweeting: “The government has a mandate to open Brexit negotiations but not a blank cheque that puts jobs, workers’ rights and our economy at risk.” Instead, he chose to go for a feeble joke.
(4) Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, the former Philippine president, has been charged with electoral fraud after the government rushed to court to prevent her from leaving the country.
(5) There’s a song by Gloria Ann Taylor, Love Is A Hurting Thing; you hear it and you want to burst out crying, it’s the most incredibly emotive vocal.
(6) Curtis' new time-travel romantic comedy About Time, starring Domnhall Gleeson and Rachel McAdams has been invited to screen in the 8000-seat outdoor Piazza Grande venue, alongside the award-winning Chilean film Gloria , and the much-admired US indie Blue Ruin, fresh from the Director's Fortnight at Cannes.
(7) – based on the music of Gloria Estefan – has a Latin sound.
(8) Judge Gloria Sturman denied the Trump campaign’s request to preserve early voting records in Clark County.
(9) I’ve been discovering so much that, at times, I’ve felt like my head was about to explode … I decided to start a feminist book club, as I want to share what I’m learning and hear your thoughts too.” Our Shared Shelf now has around 150,000 members on Goodreads , with titles discussed by the group including Marjane Satrapi’s Persepolis, Caitlin Moran’s How to Be a Woman, Alice Walker’s The Color Purple and Gloria Steinem’s My Life on the Road.
(10) That approach certainly backfired when Madeleine Albright, a former secretary of state, and the feminist Gloria Steinem suggested women had an obligation to back her.
(11) Rodrigo Duterte also said he would pardon ex-president Gloria Arroyo, who is being detained at a military hospital while on trial for graft and vote fraud.
(12) Rio de Janeiro state authorities promised to complete sewerage infrastructure near the Marina da Gloria by the end of this year and are making progress.
(13) What just happened,” Gloria Lowell asked, shaking her head.
(14) Nearly 1,400 of them will be sailing in the waters near Marina da Gloria in Guanabara Bay, swimming off Copacabana beach, and canoeing and rowing on the brackish waters of the Rodrigo de Freitas Lake.
(15) The feminist writer Gloria Steinem called it "the best show on television" .
(16) This feat he proudly recorded: “One cackling young crone claimed loudly that I had no evidence.” As well as limiting access to abortion and excluding women from company boards and any other careers where they might take men’s jobs, Mr Buchanan hopes, with his election campaign, to inflict especial damage on the Labour party, to which end he is standing against Gloria de Piero .
(17) Gloria De Piero, shadow minister for women and equalities, said: "Michael Fabricant's tweet is utterly appalling and he must apologise personally to Yasmin Alibhai-Brown immediately.
(18) Gloria De Piero, the shadow equalities minister, said it was “good news that the government have finally embraced pay transparency after shelving the Labour legislation for five years”.
(19) Shadow minister for young people and voter registration Gloria De Piero, 42, MP for Ashfield since 2010 Facebook Twitter Pinterest Photograph: David Sillitoe for the Guardian A rare shadow cabinet spot for one of the MPs who nominated Liz Kendall for the leadership.
(20) But in 1963, when Gloria Steinem went undercover in the New York club for Show magazine, she described a life of swollen feet, drudgery, "demerits" for laddered tights or scruffy tails, and a constant low-level thrum of sexual harassment.
Glory
Definition:
(n.) Praise, honor, admiration, or distinction, accorded by common consent to a person or thing; high reputation; honorable fame; renown.
(n.) That quality in a person or thing which secures general praise or honor; that which brings or gives renown; an object of pride or boast; the occasion of praise; excellency; brilliancy; splendor.
(n.) Pride; boastfulness; arrogance.
(n.) The presence of the Divine Being; the manifestations of the divine nature and favor to the blessed in heaven; celestial honor; heaven.
(n.) 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.
(n.) To exult with joy; to rejoice.
(n.) To boast; to be proud.
Example Sentences:
(1) Chapter one Announcement of the Islamic Caliphate The announcement of the renewal of the caliphate in Iraq in the year 1427AH [2006] was the arbiter between division and separation as well as the glory of the Muslims.
(2) The glory lay in the defiance, although the outcome of the tie scarcely looks promising for Arsenal when the return at Camp Nou next Tuesday is borne in mind.
(3) "With the full backing of British Gymnastics, the trainers who helped take Smith and Tweddle to Olympic glory are ready to turn the nation's pop stars, actors, newsreaders and chefs into heroes of the high bars and titans of the tumble track," it added.
(4) A handful of the global superstars – Usain Bolt and now Mo Farah – have enhanced their personal value, but most have driven themselves relentlessly for the glory alone.
(5) Harold Ramis, who helped catch phantoms in Ghostbusters and directed Bill Murray to glory in Groundhog Day , has died at the age of 69.
(6) "Replaying the glory days of Apollo will not advance the cause of American space leadership or inspire the support and enthusiasm of the public and the next generation of space explorers," he wrote.
(7) Charles Spencer goes further: " The show's crowning glory is James Corden ," he writes in the Daily Telegraph.
(8) Next his wife, Jay Z isn't much a dancer, and when the tempo upped, he respectfully exited, letting her lead her Beyhive legions through their hip-shaking glory.
(9) What promised to be a day of utter humiliation had turned into yet another day of glory.
(10) Admittedly, there has been a bit of sour grapes in the English response to the success of Dempsey et al, and no doubt we will be treading those grapes into wine and drinking ourselves into oblivion if Team USA get much further – they are, as today's typically excitable NY Daily News front page informs us, now just "four wins from glory" .
(11) And which glory-seeking, peacock-proud youth does not want to stand in the middle for hours and be admired?
(12) When it emerged that Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 had gone missing, he tweeted: "It occurs to me: All our good news on the economy is currently as submerged and lost as the Malaysian Airlines flight recorder..." The MP, whose Twitter avatar is a character from figure-skating comedy Blades Of Glory, also joked about having a relationship with a llama.
(13) In 1948 it was a battered and exhausted London that played host, knowing that the days of imperial glory were gone for ever.
(14) His players gave everything to overcome José Mourinho's team and will always be convinced that a night of incredible volume and high drama could have led them to glory rather than the crushing inevitability of Cristiano Ronaldo inflicting the final blow.
(15) The authors suggest that morning glory disc and optic pit share similar anatomic features, differing more in degree than in kind, and that the porous nature of the poorly differentiated tissue herniated around the optic nerve into the subarachnoid space in these conditions makes several sources of subretinal fluid possible.
(16) The NHS is Labour’s crowning glory, showcasing the party’s founding principles of people before profit.
(17) There is currently evidence of developmental delay and right-sided visual impairment due to Morning Glory syndrome.
(18) But Jeff Koons, as hard and as skilfully as he may try, will never trump Blackpool prom in its full illuminated autumn evening glory.
(19) As you walk out of the forest, the beach is right in front of you in all its glory.
(20) So much for the macro picture but at micro level German glory will prompt individual prosperity.