glorisome

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Etymology[edit]

From glory +‎ -some.

Adjective[edit]

glorisome (comparative more glorisome, superlative most glorisome)

  1. Characterised or marked by glory; glorious
    • 2010, R.M.W. Dixon, I Am a Linguist:
      While at Cambridge I'd been invited to a glorysome College Feast, for which I'd had to hire a dinner jacket (or tuxedo), the only time my socialist soul has been encased in such a garment.
    • 2011, Anne Spencer Parry, Tales of Shemara:
      You just finish up your egg and have another little nap and then tonight we'll all be sitting around the camp-fire and YOU maybe will be telling us all about your journey and why you folk do be coming over the mountains in the stilly night and the glorisome day, bearing troubles in your hearts and nothing in your hands.

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