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glorificate

glorificate verb: to glorify.

Verb

glorificate (third-person singular simple present glorificates, present participle glorificating, simple past and past participle glorificated)

  1. (nonstandard, transitive, chiefly non-native speakers' English) To glorify.
    • The lyrics are some kind of violence-glorificating "let it all out"-self therapy without a single good idea behind it (I refuse to believe Jello has ANYTHING to do with it, it's real "revving the kids up" again), […]1996 July 19, AK-Nickel, “good dk-type bands now?”, in alt.fan.jello-biafra (Usenet), archived from the original on 30 Jun 2026
    • There's a bit of scope between glorificating someone and arguing he's not a proto-fascist.1999 August 12, cris, “The Rebel (Author: Pádraic H. Pearse)”, in soc.culture.irish (Usenet), archived from the original on 30 Jun 2026

Examples of glorificate in a sentence

  • What about views where he glorificated Germans as a strong and proud nation and describing Poles as "nation of slaves" or something like that ?2002 November 24, 666 stabwounds, “Thor's Hammer '00”, in pl.rec.muzyka.metal (Usenet), archived from the original on 30 Jun 2026:
  • This is a harsh world , between growing terror threats, a globalized economy , an education that glorificates Competition, […]2005 April 27, Mirjam Bruck-Cohen, “Amusing anger management stitching”, in rec.crafts.textiles.needlework (Usenet), archived from the...

Forms of glorificate

third-person singular presentglorificates
present participleglorificating
past participleglorificated
pastglorificated

Origin of glorificate

Back-formation from glorification. For its use by non-native speakers, compare Occitan, Portuguese, and Spanish glorificar and Italian glorificare, from Latin glōrificō.

Questions about glorificate

What does glorificate mean?
Glorificate means to glorify.
How do you use glorificate in a sentence?
What about views where he glorificated Germans as a strong and proud nation and describing Poles as "nation of slaves" or something like that ?
What part of speech is glorificate?
Glorificate is a verb.
What is the past tense of glorificate?
The past tense of glorificate is glorificated.

Words near glorificate in the dictionary

  1. glorieth
  2. gloriette
  3. gloriettes
  4. glorifiable
  5. glorific
  6. glorificate
  7. glorificated
  8. glorificates
  9. glorificating
  10. glorification
  11. glorifications

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