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Glory is a loan word from Latin. Originally meaning boasting, and frequently used as an insult as much as a compliment, it eventually came to have an exclusively positive meaning, in English, and several other languages.

It may refer to:

Contents 1 Religion 2 Music 3 Film and television 4 Other uses 5 See also

[edit] Religion

• Glory (religion), in Judeo-Christian religious tradition, the manifestation of God's presence; see also Hod (Kabbalah)
• Glory, a term in Christian art for a halo surrounding the whole body of a person.
• Glory Be to the Father, also known as Gloria Patri, a Christian prayer, a doxology or short hymn of praise to God in various Christian liturgies
• Glorification, term for the canonization of a saint in the Eastern Orthodox Church

[edit] Music

• "Glory" (single), a single by KMFDM
• "Glory", a 1978 single by Television from the album Adventure
• "Glory! Glory!", a single by Underworld from the 1988 album Underneath the Radar
• Glory (singer), a reggaeton singer
• "The Glory", single from Kanye West's 3rd album Graduation
• "Glory," a song by Audio Adrenaline from their 2001 album Lift
• Glory (album), an album by Christian rapper Manafest

[edit] Film and television

• Glory (1956 film), a film starring Margaret O'Brien, Walter Brennan and Charlotte Greenwood
• Glory (film), a 1989 film depicting the story of a regiment of African-American soldiers in the American Civil War
• Glorificus or Glory, a goddess from a hell dimension on Buffy the Vampire Slayer

[edit] Other uses

• Glory (comics), a comic book character in the Image Comics universe
• Glory (optical phenomenon), an optical phenomenon produced by light reflected toward its source by a cloud of uniformly-sized water droplets
• Glory (novel), a 1932 novel by Vladimir Nabokov
• Glory (satellite), an earth science satellite with a proposed 2010 launch date
• HMS Glory, the name of various ships of the Royal Navy
• Imperial Glory, a computer game about the Napoleonic Wars
• Perth Glory FC, an Australian football (soccer) team
• The Glory or the Farr, a king's divine right to rule in Persian mythology
• Glory, a common translation of the Greek term kleos
• Glory, the Pacific War counterpart to the Europa series of games
• Glory, a board game designed by Richard Berg published by GMT Games

[edit] See also

• Glory hole

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