glorify
verb/ˈɡlɔːɹɪfaɪ/
Etymology From Middle English glorifien, from Anglo-Norman and Old French glorifier, from Late Latin glōrificō, from Latin glōria + -ficō (“to make”). By surface analysis, glory + -fy. 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.
1
To exalt, or give glory or praise to (something or someone).
2
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.
- Historical dictators are glorified in some countries that are dictatorships and by some political radicals.
1 more example
- Thursday's long-awaited relocation fulfils a key pledge of the socialist government, which said Spain should not continue to glorify a fascist who ruled the country for nearly four decades.2019 October 24, “Franco exhumation: Spanish dictator's remains moved”, in BBC News:
3
To worship or extol.
- Synonyms
- Derived terms
- deglorify, disglorify, glorifiable, overglorify, unglorify
- Related terms
- glory, glorification, beautify, deify, immortalize, mythify, flatter
- Hypernyms
- approve, compliment
- Hyponyms
- overlaud, to worship