gloriation

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noun

A boast; a triumphing.

OriginLatin gloriatio →
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Meanings

noungloriation (countable and uncountable, plural gloriations)

plural gloriations

  1. countableobsoleteuncountableA boast; a triumphing.

    Glory, or internal gloriation or triumph of the mind, is the passion which proceedeth from the imagination or conception of our own power above the power of him that contendeth with us […]

    1651, Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan

Origin

  1. Latingloriatio
  2. Englishgloriation

From Latin gloriatio, from gloriari (“to glory, boast”), from gloria (“glory”). See glory (noun).

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gloriation. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/gloriation

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Chicago

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