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gloriousness

gloriousness noun: glory, the state or quality of being glorious.

Noun

gloriousness (countable and uncountable, plural gloriousnesses)

  1. glory, the state or quality of being glorious
    • 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...1864, George MacDonald, A Hidden Life and Other Poems
    • These 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

Forms of gloriousness

pluralgloriousnesses

Origin of gloriousness

From glorious + -ness.

Questions about gloriousness

What does gloriousness mean?
Gloriousness means glory, the state or quality of being glorious.
What part of speech is gloriousness?
Gloriousness is a noun.
What is the plural of gloriousness?
The plural of gloriousness is gloriousnesses.

Words near gloriousness in the dictionary

  1. Glorious Thirty
  2. Glorious Twelfth
  3. gloriouser
  4. gloriousest
  5. gloriously
  6. gloriousness
  7. gloriousnesses
  8. glorisome
  9. Glorithverse
  10. Glorvina
  11. glory

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