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glorisome

glorisome adjective: characterised or marked by glory; glorious.

Adjective

glorisome (comparative more glorisome, superlative most glorisome)

  1. Characterised or marked by glory; glorious
    • While at Cambridge I'd been invited to a glorysome College Feast, for which I'd had to hire a dinner jacket (or tuxedo), the only time my socialist soul has been encased in such a garment.2010, R.M.W. Dixon, I Am a Linguist
    • You just finish up your egg and have another little nap and then tonight we'll all be sitting around the camp-fire and YOU maybe will be telling us all about your journey and why you folk do be coming over the mountains in the stilly night and the glorisome day, bearing troubles in your hearts and...2011, Anne Spencer Parry, Tales of Shemara

Forms of glorisome

comparativemore glorisome
superlativemost glorisome
alternative formglorysome

Origin of glorisome

From glory + -some.

Questions about glorisome

What does glorisome mean?
Glorisome means characterised or marked by glory; glorious.
What part of speech is glorisome?
Glorisome is an adjective.

Words near glorisome in the dictionary

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

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