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- verb Present participle of
glorify .
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Examples
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Such is the wont of the sons of the merchants and they all vie one with other in glorifying globe-trotting and gain.
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Upon this account, St. Peter exhorts the ministers of the gospel so to preach to the people, and so to perform the public offices of religion, as may be for the honour of religion; and this he calls glorifying of
The Works of Dr. John Tillotson, Late Archbishop of Canterbury. Vol. 09. 1630-1694 1820
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Note, All our wonder should help to enlarge our hearts in glorifying God, who alone does marvellous things.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume V (Matthew to John) 1721
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He prays that God would give him strength to praise him: "Let thy judgments help me; let all ordinances and all providences" (both are God's judgments) "further me in glorifying God; let them be the matter of my praise and let them help to fit me for that work."
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume III (Job to Song of Solomon) 1721
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God will glorify himself in glorifying his chosen.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi) 1721
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For our tongue is our glory, and never more so than when it is employed in glorifying God.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume III (Job to Song of Solomon) 1721
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The soul must be sanctified and renewed, and delivered into the mould of the word; the soul must be employed in glorifying God, for he will be worshipped in the spirit.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume III (Job to Song of Solomon) 1721
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It were well if all disputes about matters of religion might end thus, in glorifying God as Lord of all, and our Lord, with one mind and one mouth (Rom.xv. 6); for to that we have all attained, in that we are all agreed.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume III (Job to Song of Solomon) 1721
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Since we find ourselves so, defective in glorifying
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume III (Job to Song of Solomon) 1721
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God has made us, and given us life, and therefore we should study to use our life to some good purpose, to spend it in glorifying God and serving our generation according to his will, that we may answer the end of our creation and it may not be said that we were made in vain.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume III (Job to Song of Solomon) 1721
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