disglorify
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Verb
[edit]disglorify (third-person singular simple present disglorifies, present participle disglorifying, simple past and past participle disglorified)
- (transitive) To deprive of glory; to treat with indignity.
- 1671, John Milton, “Samson Agonistes, […].”, in Paradise Regain’d. A Poem. In IV Books. To which is Added, Samson Agonistes, London: […] J[ohn] M[acock] for John Starkey […], →OCLC, page 32:
- Diſglorifi'd, blaſphem'd, and had in ſcorn / By th' Idolatrous rout amidſt thir wine;
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “disglorify”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)