gloriation

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English

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Etymology

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

Noun

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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 []