Definition of "glorify" []

• To give glory, honor, or high praise to; exalt. (verb-transitive)
• To cause to be or seem more glorious or excellent than is actually the case: Your descriptions have glorified an average house into a mansion. (verb-transitive)
• To give glory to, especially through worship. (verb-transitive)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "Another thing the museum does not turn a blind eye to, nor does it overly glorify, is just how many of its inductees and honorees are dead."
• "The glory of an object, of a thing or person, is its intrinsic worth or excellence: to glorify is to remove everything that could hinder the full revelation of that excellence."
• "Now you must embrace, encourage, glorify ... in other words,"