glorificatory

comparative more glorificatory · superlative most glorificatory

1. literaryuncommonExpressing or characterized by glorification; glorifying.

   Robby Benson is director as well as star of Crack in the Mirror (Cannon Oxford St, etc, 18), a cautionary (i.e. glorificatory) tale of cocaine dealing and use.

   1989 May 25, Tim Pulleine, “At the heart of darkness […]”, in The Guardian, London; Manchester, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 23, column 4

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   We would also suggest the propriety of having a chapter treating, philosophically, of the “art of non-committalism,” giving specimens of its varieties, from the productions of his [Martin Van Buren’s] Magnus Apollo [DeWitt Clinton], each specimen being illustrated by an approriate act of his public life. This, well spiced with “terms glorificatory,” and concluding with a dissertation on “the best mode of humbugging,” rendered more plain by an account of the proceedings of a certain convention, would, we think, form such a dish as will not nauseate the stomachs of those who swallowed the [William] Cobbett biography [The Life of Andrew Jackson, President of the United States], or who do not choke in gulping down the paragraphs which flow daily from the veracious pen of the editor of the [Washington] Globe [Francis Preston Blair].

   1835 October 14, Dover Enquirer, “Another Biographer!”, in Kennebec Journal, volume XI, number 42, Augusta, Me., →OCLC, front page, column 6

   It was also the occasion for [Benjamin] Britten's *Gloriana*, which caused considerable murmuring and was a flop at the premiere because the opening night audience didn't include anyone interested in opera, and because the portrait of EIR [Elizabeth I] isn't exactly glorificatory.

   2005 December 6, Peter T. Daniels, “So it is true...”, in sci.lang (Usenet), archived from the original on 01 Jul 2026