glorify

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• /ˈɡlɔːɹɪfaɪ/
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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.

61 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Albanian: përhiroj — to exalt, or give glory or praise to something or someone
• Bulgarian: славя (slavja) — to exalt, or give glory or praise to something or someone
• Bulgarian: прославям (proslavjam) — to exalt, or give glory or praise to something or someone
• Catalan: glorificar — to exalt, or give glory or praise to something or someone
• Dutch: verheerlijken — to exalt, or give glory or praise to something or someone
• Dutch: vereren — to exalt, or give glory or praise to something or someone
• Faroese: æra — to exalt, or give glory or praise to something or someone
• Finnish: ylistää — to exalt, or give glory or praise to something or someone
• French: glorifier — to exalt, or give glory or praise to something or someone
• Galician: glorificar — to exalt, or give glory or praise to something or someone
• German: verherrlichen — to exalt, or give glory or praise to something or someone
• Gothic: 𐌷𐌰𐌿𐌷𐌾𐌰𐌽 (hauhjan) — to exalt, or give glory or praise to something or someone
• Greek: δοξάζω (doxázo) — to exalt, or give glory or praise to something or someone
• Ancient Greek: δοξάζω (doxázō) — to exalt, or give glory or praise to something or someone
• Irish: glóirigh — to exalt, or give glory or praise to something or someone
• Irish: mór — to exalt, or give glory or praise to something or someone
• Old Irish: ad·amraigedar — to exalt, or give glory or praise to something or someone
• Italian: glorificare — to exalt, or give glory or praise to something or someone
• Japanese: 褒める (homeru) — to exalt, or give glory or praise to something or someone
• Luxembourgish: verherrlechen — to exalt, or give glory or praise to something or someone
• Māori: whakakorōria — to exalt, or give glory or praise to something or someone
• Old English: wuldrian — to exalt, or give glory or praise to something or someone
• Polish: gloryfikować — to exalt, or give glory or praise to something or someone
• Polish: wysławiać — to exalt, or give glory or praise to something or someone
• Polish: wysławić — to exalt, or give glory or praise to something or someone
• Russian: прославля́ть (proslavljátʹ) — to exalt, or give glory or praise to something or someone
• Russian: просла́вить (proslávitʹ) — to exalt, or give glory or praise to something or someone
• Russian: восхваля́ть (vosxvaljátʹ) — to exalt, or give glory or praise to something or someone
• Russian: восхвали́ть (vosxvalítʹ) — to exalt, or give glory or praise to something or someone
• Slovene: opevati — to exalt, or give glory or praise to something or someone
• Slovene: poveličevati — to exalt, or give glory or praise to something or someone
• Slovene: slaviti — to exalt, or give glory or praise to something or someone
• Spanish: glorificar — to exalt, or give glory or praise to something or someone
• Swedish: prisa — to exalt, or give glory or praise to something or someone
• Swedish: ära — to exalt, or give glory or praise to something or someone
• Swedish: glorifiera — to exalt, or give glory or praise to something or someone
• Ukrainian: прославля́ти (proslavljáty) — to exalt, or give glory or praise to something or someone
• Ukrainian: просла́вити (proslávyty) — to exalt, or give glory or praise to something or someone
• Volapük: glorükön — to exalt, or give glory or praise to something or someone
• Finnish: kaunistella — to make something appear to be more glorious than it is
• Galician: glorificar — to make something appear to be more glorious than it is
• German: glorifizieren — to make something appear to be more glorious than it is
• German: verklären — to make something appear to be more glorious than it is
• Japanese: 美化する (bika suru) — to make something appear to be more glorious than it is
• Polish: gloryfikować — to make something appear to be more glorious than it is
• Romanian: glorifica — to make something appear to be more glorious than it is
• Russian: превозноси́ть (prevoznosítʹ) — to make something appear to be more glorious than it is
• Russian: превознести́ (prevoznestí) — to make something appear to be more glorious than it is
• Slovene: poveličevati — to make something appear to be more glorious than it is
• Spanish: glorificar — to make something appear to be more glorious than it is
• Swedish: förhärliga — to make something appear to be more glorious than it is
• Swedish: glorifiera — to make something appear to be more glorious than it is
• Bulgarian: превъзнасям (prevǎznasjam) — to worship or extol
• Bulgarian: величая (veličaja) — to worship or extol
• Finnish: palvoa — to worship or extol
• German: anbeten — to worship or extol
• Russian: боготвори́ть (bogotvorítʹ) — to worship or extol
• Russian: поклоня́ться (poklonjátʹsja) — to worship or extol
• Slovene: slaviti — to worship or extol
• Swedish: prisa — to worship or extol
• Volapük: Godiglorükön — to worship or extol