Meanings
plural gloriousnesses
- countableuncountableglory, the state or quality of being glorious
Said the artist, "I'm celebrating the gloriousness of putrefaction."
2000 January 21, Chuck Shepherd, “News of the Weird”, in Chicago Reader2 more examples
Wakes within, the ancient mind For a gloriousness defined: As she sought and knew your pleasure,-- Wiling with a dancing measure, Underneath your closed eyes She calls the shapes of clouded skies; White forms flushing hyacinthine Twine in curvings labyrinthine; Seem with godlike graceful feet, For such mazy motion meet, To press from air each lambent note, On whose throbbing fire they float; With an airy wishful gait On each others' motion wait; Naked arms and vesture free Fill up the dance of harmony.
1864, George MacDonald, A Hidden Life and Other PoemsThese two variegated, great goddesses striving for gloriousness, the golden ones who move crookedly, have approached thy sacrificial grass.
1900, Various, Sacred Books of the East
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