glorying

Verb

glory (third-person singular simple present glories, present participle glorying, simple past and past participle gloried)

1. To exult with joy; to rejoice.
   • In what the Apostle did glory?—He gloried in a Cross. ... [T]o the Ear of a Galatian, it conveyed much the same Meaning, as if the Apostle had gloried in a Halter; gloried in the Gallows; gloried in a Gibbet.1753, James Hervey, A Visitation Sermon: Preached at Northampton, May 10, 1753
2. To boast; to be proud.
   • For if in anything I have gloried to him on your behalf, I was not put to shame; but as we spake all things to you in truth, so our glorying also, which I made before Titus, was found to be truth.1881, Revised Version, 2 Corinthians 7:14
3. (archaic, poetic) To shine radiantly.
   • Down in a casement sat,
     A low sea-sunset glorying round her hair1859–85, Alfred Tennyson, Idylls of the King, "The Last Tournament"

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