Other forms: glorified, glorifying, glorifies
To glorify is to praise something as far greater than it is. Glorify violence, a glorified clerk, glorify God.
The commonest use is the participle as a put-down: a glorified something is a plain thing given a grand name. In religion it is the straight sense, meaning to give glory, with no criticism in it at all.
1verbglorifyTo praise something as far greater than it is.
“Critics said the film glorified violence and made gangsters look like heroes.”
glorify is a praising.
Latin glorificare is gloria, glory, plus facere, to make.
Latin
glōrificō
Old French
glorifier
Middle English
glorifien
English, today
glorify
Built from
From Middle English glorifien, from Anglo-Norman - and Old French glorifier, from Latin glōrificō, from Latin glōria + -ficō (“to make”). by surface analysis, glory + -fy. Displaced native wuldrien, from wuldrian as well as stellifien, from stellifier (stellificāre); see stellify.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA