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English
Etymology
From glorious + -ness.
Noun
gloriousness (countable and uncountable, plural gloriousnesses)
- glory, the state or quality of being glorious
1864, George MacDonald, A Hidden Life and Other Poems:Wakes within, the ancient mind For a gloriousness defined: As she sought and knew your pleasure,-- Wiling with a dancing measure, Underneath your closed eyes She calls the shapes of clouded skies; White forms flushing hyacinthine Twine in curvings labyrinthine; Seem with godlike graceful feet, For such mazy motion meet, To press from air each lambent note, On whose throbbing fire they float; With an airy wishful gait On each others' motion wait; Naked arms and vesture free Fill up the dance of harmony.
1900, Various, Sacred Books of the East:These two variegated, great goddesses striving for gloriousness, the golden ones who move crookedly, have approached thy sacrificial grass.
2000 January 21, Chuck Shepherd, “News of the Weird”, in Chicago Reader:Said the artist, "I'm celebrating the gloriousness of putrefaction."