OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 9743

glory

/ˈɡlɔː.ɹi/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
gloria
Great beauty and splendor.
He was thinking; but the glory of the song, the swell from the great organ, the clustered lights, […], the height and vastness of this noble fane, its antiquity and its strength—al…
One of the hidden glories of Victorian engineering is proper drains. Isolating a city’s effluent and shipping it away in underground sewers has probably saved more lives than any m…
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