Antonyms for glory

Grammar : Noun, verb

Spell : glawr-ee, glohr-ee

Phonetic Transcription : ˈglɔr i, ˈgloʊr i

Definition of glory

Origin : c.1200, gloire "the splendor of God or Christ; praise offered to God, worship," from Old French glorie (11c., Modern French gloire), from Latin gloria "fame, renown, great praise or honor," of uncertain origin.
Greek doxa "expectation" (Homer), later "opinion, fame," and ultimately "glory," was used in Biblical writing to translate a Hebrew word which had a sense of "brightness, splendor, magnificence, majesty," and this subsequently was translated as Latin gloria, which has colored that word's meaning in most European tongues. Wuldor was an Old English word used in this sense. Sense of "magnificence" is c.1300 in English. Meaning "worldly honor, fame, renown" of "the kingdom of Heaven," and of "one who is a source of glory" are from mid-14c. Latin also had gloriola "a little fame." Glory days was in use by 1970.

noun fame, importance
noun great beauty
verb boast, exult

Example sentences :

It was his glory that he could sacrifice it at the call of duty.
Extract from : « Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. 327 » by Various

Voices were raised saying we had to look to our past for the greatness and glory.
Extract from : « United States Presidents' Inaugural Speeches » by Various

Ireland had proved the glory of Mr. Gladstone's administration.
Extract from : « The Grand Old Man » by Richard B. Cook

To get it all you must live there, to be interpenetrated by its glory of decay.
Extract from : « The Conquest of Fear » by Basil King

She had no real notion yet of what is meant by the glory of God.
Extract from : « Weighed and Wanting » by George MacDonald

There was no money in it—nothing but a little Massachusetts glory.
Extract from : « Punchinello, Vol. 1, No. 8, May 21, 1870 » by Various

The campaigns of Napoleon, with their atmosphere of glory, illustrate this.
Extract from : « A Treatise on Parents and Children » by George Bernard Shaw

Why resist, and refuse the glory of belonging to the faculty?
Extract from : « The Imaginary Invalid » by Molire

For Thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever and ever.
Extract from : « An Explanation of Luther's Small Catechism » by Joseph Stump

Let them think of the glory of Athens, and her imperial fame.
Extract from : « Stories from Thucydides » by H. L. Havell

Synonyms for glory

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