Definitions
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- adjective accorded sacrosanct or authoritative standing.
- adjective Made to appear more important or better than it actually is.
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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
glorify . - adjective
transformed into somethingglorious (often used sarcastically)
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- adjective accorded sacrosanct or authoritative standing
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Examples
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Jesus not yet glorified -- The word "glorified" is here used advisedly, to teach the reader not only that the departure of Christ to the Father was indispensable to the giving of the Spirit, but that this illustrious Gift, direct from the hands of the ascended Saviour, was
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Yes, indeed -- the NFL, that crackerjack enforcement organization when it comes to making sure that this kind of thing isn't glorified, is making additional cash on the photos (the "shots of the shots") it claims to find so reprehensible.
NFL says putting photos of illegal hits up for sale was a mistake Cindy Boren 2010
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Human beings for thousands of years have been ripping shiny rocks and useless metal out of the earth with the only purpose being to adorn their body in glorified pebbles.
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BTW stand hunting is not the best type of hunting for trophy North American animals IMHO. I dare write 90% of Upstate NY big game hunters are hunting in glorified, landscaped suburbs or parklands bogusly being defined as big game habitat.
Survival of the Weakest? Dave Hurteau 2009
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Then is the word glorified, when it hath a free course and progress, 2
The Sermons of John Owen 1616-1683 1968
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The world will see it as God has always seen it; and when He shall at length make inquisition for blood, and His vengeance kindle over the habitations of cruelty, with a destruction more terrible than that of Sodom and Gomorrah, His righteous dealing will be justified of man, and His name glorified among the nations, and there will be a voice of rejoicing in Earth and in Heaven.
The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus American Anti-Slavery Society
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Church of the first-born who will share His millennial reign in glorified bodies; the spared remnant (Isa 10: 21) will only know the
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The vindication of the justice of God that so He may be glorified is the grand end of God's dealings.
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The culture has, in short, glorified political attacks.
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First, To be eternally glorified is to go in with Christ to the marriage, to be in his immediate presence, and in the most intimate fellowship and communion with him in a state of eternal rest, joy, and plenty.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume V (Matthew to John) 1721
marky commented on the word glorified
this word is a bit glorified if you ask me.
April 15, 2008