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Definition:1. To exult with joy; to rejoice2. To boast; to be proudtext from Wiktionary, licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike
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Presently she stepped into the kitchen, and Sid, happy in his immunity, reached for the sugar-bowl—a sort of glorying over Tom which was wellnigh unbearable.
Mark Twain. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876)
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I rode with my arms about [his] waist, glorying in the feel of the sun-warmed muscle shifting under my cheek.
Diana Gabaldon. Outlander (1991)
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Nately did not glory too immodestly that his girl was a prostitute, [...].Joseph Heller. Catch-22, p.270 (1961)
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"She'd a been proud for you to wear it! I glory in your spunk!"
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"they will have to come out of their holes. They will have to crawl out of their soft beds in England, they will have to stop depending upon their hired assassins, and they will have to come to meet us on the battlefield here like soldiers. I glory in that thought, I live for that day, I shout to them, 'Come, see what it is to fight the German like a soldierl' I face that day,"
Irwin Shaw. The Young Lions, p.421 (1948)
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