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Glorious adj.

Exhibiting attributes, qualities, or acts that are worthy of or receive glory; noble; praiseworthy; excellent; splendid; illustrious; inspiring admiration; as, glorious deeds. "These are thy glorious works, Parent of good!"

Eager for glory or distinction; haughty; boastful; ostentatious; vainglorious. (Obs.) "Most miserable Is the desire that's glorious."

Ecstatic; hilarious; elated with drink. (Colloq.) "kings may be blest, but Tam was glorious, O'er all the ills of life victorious." "During his office treason was no crime, The sons of Belial had a glorious time."

Synonyms: Eniment; noble; excellent; renowned; illustrious; celebrated; magnificent; grand; splendid. "Sing ye to the Lord, for he hath triumphed gloriously." "I speak it not gloriously, nor out of affectation."

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"Glorious" Quotes from Famous Books

... Alvarez, my death is necessary. No pains, no arguments shall turn me from it; yet my approaching end must do some signal service to the Princess. Animated by this noble desire, I will seek some glorious means of quitting life; perform some mighty deed worthy of my love, so that in expiring for her sake she may pity me, and say, it was excess of love that was my sole offence. Thus she shall see herself avenged! I must attempt a deed of daring, ...

— Don Garcia of Navarre • Moliere

... Friday morning in the year 18 hundred and something, a terrific gale broke over the east coast, and everywhere the lifeboat men went out to watch the raging sea, knowing full well that ere long there would be rough but glorious work for them to do. A tremendous sea ran high on the bar at Tynemouth, and rolled with tremendous force on the Black Middens—rocks that are black indeed, in their history as well as their aspect. ...

— Saved by the Lifeboat • R.M. Ballantyne

... of the glorious three days was duly ushered in with the firing of cannon, ringing of bells, and all kinds of extravagant jubilation. It wasn't quite as noisy as a Fourth of July, but much more discordant. Strings of flags were suspended across the streets,—flags with harps of all ...

— Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 5, March, 1858 • Various

... May 1st.—As sulky a day as ever glouted in an English sky. The "young morn" came picking her way from the east, leading with her a dripping, draggled May, instead of Milton's glorious vision. ...

— Records of a Girlhood • Frances Anne Kemble

... predecessor "NOTES AND QUERIES." The title, when translated into English, would be—"The Searcher; a medium of intellectual exchange and literary intercourse between all who know something, have to ask something, or can solve something." If it be glorious for you to have proposed a good example, we think it honourable for us to ...

— Notes and Queries, Number 66, February 1, 1851 • Various

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