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Gloria

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Glo·ri·a  (glôr-, glr-)
n.
1.
a. A Latin doxology beginning with the words Gloria Patri.
b. A Latin doxology that is the second item of the Ordinary of the Roman Catholic Mass and begins with the words Gloria in excelsis Deo.
2. A musical setting for either of these doxologies.
3. gloria A halo or nimbus.
[Middle English, from Late Latin Glria, from Latin glria, glory.]
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These are the documents in the extraordinary case of the Gloria Scott, and this is the message which struck Justice of the Peace Trevor dead with horror when he read it.
Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes by Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan View in context
Qui de contemnenda gloria libros scribunt, nomen, suum inscribunt.
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Then the candles were relit and he was told that he would see the full light; the bandage was again removed and more than ten voices said together: "Sic transit gloria mundi.
War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo View in context
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