What's the difference between glory and splendor?

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.

Splendor


Definition:

  • (n.) Great brightness; brilliant luster; brilliancy; as, the splendor ot the sun.
  • (n.) Magnifience; pomp; parade; as, the splendor of equipage, ceremonies, processions, and the like.
  • (n.) Brilliancy; glory; as, the splendor of a victory.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The results show that the helminthotoxic MBP is deposited on eggs in granulomas in human tissues and suggest that the Splendore-Hoeppli phenomenon is accounted for in part by deposition of eosinophil granule MBP.
  • (2) They were cuffed with a wide zone of necrotic cell coagulum, or with homogeneous eosinophilic Splendore-Hoeppli granules.
  • (3) All cases showed the histologic features of the Splendore-Hoeppli phenomenon, that is, a giant cell and eosinophil granulomatous reaction to an antigen-antibody precipitate originally described in relation to parasites or fungi.
  • (4) Bravery is a many-splendored but very nuanced thing.
  • (5) Actinomyces-like granules showing the Splendore-Hoeppli phenomenon have been demonstrated in histologic material, e.g.
  • (6) Extensive extracellular MBP deposition was present in the necrotic migration tracks in the brain and around larvae in the mesenteric granulomata in association with the radiating eosinophilic deposits characteristic of the "Splendore-Hoeppli phenomenon."
  • (7) This pseudo-Splendore-Hoeppli phenomenon appears to be caused by adsorption of plasma and fibrin to the hyphal walls in the absence of both neutrophilic response and extensive fibrin clotting.
  • (8) But then in 1997, Araki committed the ultimate transgression: he began a relationship with a woman, Kathleen Robertson, formerly of Beverly Hills 90210, whom he'd cast in Nowhere and his 1999 film Splendor, a menage-a-trois screwball comedy.
  • (9) Histologically, localized infections are characterized by lack of vessel invasion and the presence of an eosinophilic sleeve around fungal elements, called the Splendore-Hoeppli phenomenon.
  • (10) Eosinophilic granulomas with Splendore-Hoeppli material were present in mesenteric lymph nodes in four ferrets.
  • (11) Small granulomas, sometimes containing radiating clubs, and Splendore-Hoeppli material were present in the regional lymph node.
  • (12) Typical asteroid bodies (Splendore-Hoeppli phenomenon) with central yeast cells were seen.
  • (13) Splendore-Hoeppli like phenomenon and eosinophilic inflammatory reaction around the hyphae, was microscopically observed.
  • (14) The bulk of information on rehabilitation of the face has come from clinical empiricism, but basic research in nerve and muscle physiology and attempts at multiple classifications regarding indications and criteria have added to the splendor of this drama.
  • (15) Pleistophora simulii (Lutz et Splendore, 1904): reticulated or net-like plasmodial envelope, formation of pansporoblastic structures looking like short pipes.
  • (16) The Splendore-Hoeppli deposits consist in part of eosinophil granule MBP.
  • (17) These sheathes are regarded as one form of the Splendore-Hoeppli phenomenon.
  • (18) The third patient presented with the rarely described nodular hypersensitivity conjunctivitis (Splendore-Hoeppli reaction) and it is suggested that these ophthalmologically observed asymptomatic lesions are apparently clinically transient so reports may be few because of infrequent biopsy.
  • (19) The peripheral coating of larvae was suggestive of the Splendore-Hoeppli effect which has been associated with immunological responsiveness.
  • (20) Presenting the Pope's controversial encyclical on moral questions, Veritatis Splendor, in 1993, he demolished the challenge of a young reporter on contraception by counter-challenging: "Have you actually read Humanae Vitae?"