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beglory en · VERB

Etymology

From be- (“on, at, across, about”) + glory.

Meanings

1. (transitive) To glory in, about, or over; exalt; make glorious; impart with glory; glorify.
   • [...] And with victory beglory'd set Sun and Moon, [...] 1898, William Morris, Poetical Works: Tale of Beowulf:
   • Let city commissions and chambers of commerce be as careful about ridding their own cities of disease and crime as they are to get into them factories and conventions and whatever else begets or beglories gold. 1918, James Edward McCulloch, Democracy in earnest:
   • Isaac Rosenberg acutely condemned Rupert Brooke's 'begloried sonnets' for their reliance on 'second-hand phrases'. 2011, Geoff Dyer, The Missing of the Somme:
   • [...] into the Century Ensuing with a third less shine Of Light and Life to th'Entery Of the next fearfull woe which in its time Should follow to beglory Truth Divine. 1961, Jay Broadus Hubbell, Clarence Louis Frank Gohdes, American literature:
   • Away on the patriarch mountains the sunset is burning, And huge floating cloudlets, begloried with crimson, Move silently o'er with a sleepy and peace-breathing motion. 1880, George Heath, James Badnall, Francis Redfern, The poems of George Heath:

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