gloried in English

verb

1

take great pride or pleasure in.

they were individuals who gloried in their independence

synonyms: take pleasure in, revel in, rejoice in, delight in, relish, savor, congratulate oneself on, be proud of, boast about, bask in, get a kick out of, get a thrill out of

verb

take pleasure in, revel in, rejoice in, delight in, relish, savor, congratulate oneself on, be proud of, boast about, bask in, get a kick out of, get a thrill out of

Use "gloried" in a sentence

1. He gloried in his radicalism.

2. The glory of Moab shall be Contemned, that is, it shall be contemptible, when all those things they have gloried in shall come to nothing.

3. THE TRAGIC MUSE HENRY JAMES What was subconscious became conscious, what, back in the past, was a mere Adumbration gloried out in Aurora splendours.

4. Synonyms for Basked in include congratulated oneself, delighted in, felt proud about, felt proud of, flattered oneself on, gloried in, preened oneself on, took pride in, exulted in and felt satisfaction at

5. I think he rather gloried in the Contumely, but fifty years earlier he might have been visited by a "lettre de cachet," instead of a knighthood; for we can not forget how, in Eighteen Hundred Fifteen, Parliament refused to pay for the Elgin Marbles because, as Lord Falmouth put it, "These relics will tend to prostitute England to the depth of unbelief that engulfed Pagan Greece.