glorify

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   To make something seem better or more important than it really is.

   Some films glorify violence by making it look exciting.

2. 2
   verb

   To praise and honour someone or something highly.

   The poem glorifies the heroes who died in battle.

From Middle English glorifien, from Anglo-Norman and Old French glorifier, from Late Latin glorificō, from Latin gloria + faciō (“to make”). Displaced native Middle English wuldrien (“to glorify”), from Old English wuldrian as well as Middle English stellifien (“to glorify, make stellar”), from Old French stellifier (Medieval Latin stellificāre); see stellify.

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