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 […]