English

Noun

gloriousness ‎(countable and uncountable, plural gloriousnesses)

1. glory, the state or quality of being glorious
   • 1864, George MacDonald, A Hidden Life and Other Poems:

     Wakes within, the ancient mind For a gloriousness defined: As she sought and knew your pleasure,-- Wiling with a dancing measure, Underneath your closed eyes She calls the shapes of clouded skies; White forms flushing hyacinthine Twine in curvings labyrinthine; Seem with godlike graceful feet, For such mazy motion meet, To press from air each lambent note, On whose throbbing fire they float; With an airy wishful gait On each others' motion wait; Naked arms and vesture free Fill up the dance of harmony.

   • 1900, Various, Sacred Books of the East:

     These two variegated, great goddesses striving for gloriousness, the golden ones who move crookedly, have approached thy sacrificial grass.

   • 2000 January 21, Chuck Shepherd, “News of the Weird”, in Chicago Reader:

     Said the artist, "I'm celebrating the gloriousness of putrefaction."