gloriation
English edit
Etymology edit
From Latin gloriatio, from gloriari (“to glory, boast”), from gloria (“glory”). See glory (noun).
Noun edit
gloriation (countable and uncountable, plural gloriations)
- (obsolete) A boast; a triumphing.
- 1651, Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan:
- Glory, or internal gloriation or triumph of the mind, is the passion which proceedeth from the imagination or conception of our own power above the power of him that contendeth with us […]