glorify

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   cause to seem more splendid

   You are glorifying a rather mediocre building

2. 2
   verb

   To make (something) appear to be more glorious than it is; regard something or someone as excellent baselessly.

   Some movies glorify mobsters by making them seem like the cool kids around the block.

3. 3
   verb

   bestow glory upon

4. 4
   verb

   elevate or idealize, in allusion to Christ's transfiguration

5. 5
   verb

   praise, glorify, or honor

6. 6
   verb

   To exalt, or give glory or praise to (something or someone).

7. 7
   verb

   To worship or extol.

Etymology

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.