(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.
Rejoice
Definition:
(v. i.) To feel joy; to experience gladness in a high degree; to have pleasurable satisfaction; to be delighted.
(v. t.) To enjoy.
(v. t.) To give joy to; to make joyful; to gladden.
(n.) The act of rejoicing.
Example Sentences:
(1) The fall of a tyrant is usually the cause of popular rejoicing followed by public vengeance.
(2) With gratitude and rejoice, we commemorate the return to International arena.
(3) The markets went quiet, Spain, Italy, and Ireland rejoiced, as Draghi emphasised for the third time in six weeks that the euro is irreversible.
(4) Yet while our national income is almost back to where it was before the crisis (rejoice!
(5) The over-50s, rejoicing in the untaxed capital gains they enjoy from buying property a generation ago, will help their own kids, but are not asked to help anyone else’s.
(6) Green campaigners were rejoicing over the departure of the climate sceptic, while the National Farmers' Union was downcast at the exit of a cabinet minister who consistently stuck up for rural areas.
(7) He sounds, as it were, the fatal bottom of our organic existence, and yet claims not merely to accept the universe, as another Transcendentalist, Margaret Fuller, put it, but to rejoice in it.
(8) Allowed to play, Alan Pardew having opted against recalling the out-of-favour Mile Jedinak to anchor his midfield, the visitors rejoiced.
(9) In an interview on his 90th birthday, he was asked if he had rejoiced at the news.
(10) "I think Africans rejoicing at his making it to office came from the need for a psychological boost as well as an indication of Africans buying into the American dream – that one's roots can be African and one can succeed in life, with those roots.
(11) As a Guardian writer, I should rejoice at the added readers and influence we will get (though all these challenges are ours, too).
(12) Northerners, it seems, are expected to rejoice at the fact they can commute to well-paying jobs in the south-east without having to up sticks.
(13) In the fevered Daily Mail version, this fact suggests a nefarious and hyperactive court, up to mischief and rejoicing in 'overruling' national authorities, better to promote the interests of sex offenders and the homicidal.
(14) "Rather than seeing this as a negative, we need to rejoice, Maranatha, come Lord Jesus, His day is at hand," she said in an interview with a Christian radio station.
(15) However, it is still early for us to rejoice knowing that China is not heeding the ruling.
(16) Greeks,” he said, “should rejoice.” The government that had put the country through an assault course of austerity would soon be over.
(17) The home crowd were silenced, the Irish players rejoiced.
(18) He taught us so much about seizing opportunities and rejoicing in everything life could offer, no matter how small.” Hett’s friend Christina wrote that her heart was “broken into a million pieces” at the loss of “my best friend, my maid of honour”.
(19) The protesters, including a choir singing the Hallelujah chorus from Handel's Messiah, rejoiced at his departure.
(20) Until recently, most self-respecting rock bohemians would stay at the dilapidated but charming Chelsea, where they would rejoice in being shouted at by the manager for daring to ask to have the room where Sid Vicious killed Nancy Spungen.