Gloria definition

glôrē-ə
A musical setting for either of these doxologies.
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A Latin doxology beginning with the words Gloria Patri.
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(name, person, proper) A feminine name.
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A halo or nimbus.
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A Latin doxology that is the second item of the Ordinary of the Roman Catholic Mass and begins with the words Gloria in excelsis Deo.
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A halo or its representation in art.
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A glossy, closely woven cloth of cotton, rayon, silk and wool, etc.
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A female given name. Popular during the first half of the 20th century.
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The music for either of these.
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Origin of gloria

  • Middle English from Late Latin Glōria from Latin glōria glory

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • Latin gloria (“glory”), first used as a name in 19th century literature.

    From Wiktionary

Gloria Sentence Examples

  • Music with Latin words is not excluded from the Lutheran Church, and the Kyrie and Gloria are frequently sung in succession and entitled a Mass.

  • The seven books of miracles are divided into the De gloria martyrum, the De virtutibus sancti Juliani, four books of Miracula sancti Martini, and the De gloria confessorum, the last dealing mainly with confessors who had dwelt in the cities of Tours and Clermont.

  • In the Western Church the Gloria Patri is repeated at the close of every psalm, in the Eastern Church at the close of the last psalm.

  • In the 6th century St Sergius was honoured in the West (Gregory of Tours, De gloria martyrusn, 96).

  • Theodulf was the author of at least part of the hymn for Palm Sunday, the Gloria laws.

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