Definitions
Great honor, fame, splendor, or praise.
Word origin
From Middle English glory, glorie, from Old French glorie (“glory”), from Latin glōria (“glory, fame, renown, praise, ambition, boasting”). Doublet of gloria. Displaced native Old English wuldor.
Used in a sentence
“One of the hidden glories of Victorian engineering is proper drains. Isolating a city’s effluent and shipping it away in underground sewers has probably saved more lives than any medical procedure except vaccination.”
“In this faire wize they traueild long yfere, Through many hard assayes, which did betide; Of which he honour still away did beare, And spred his glorie through all countries wide.”
“Deeme it no gloire to swell in tyrannie.”
The New Arcadia
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer2 curated clues
01“Fame and honor”5 letters
02“Great honor”5 letters
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