gloriation

English

Etymology

From Latin gloriatio, from gloriari (“to glory, boast”), from gloria (“glory”). See glory (noun).

Noun

gloriation (countable and uncountable, plural gloriations)

  1. (obsolete) A boast; a triumphing.
    • 1651, Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan
      Glory, or internal gloriation or triumph of the mind, is the passion which proceedeth from the imagination or conception of our own power above the power of him that contendeth with us […]
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