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English
Etymology
From un- + glorious.
Pronunciation
Adjective
unglorious (comparative more unglorious, superlative most unglorious)
- Obsolete form of inglorious.[1]
c. 1382–1395, John Wycliffe [et al.], edited by Josiah Forshall and Frederic Madden, The Holy Bible, , volume II, Oxford: At the University Press, published 1850, →OCLC, Job XII:19, page 690, column 1:He bringethy the prestis of hem vnglorious, and the beste men of wrshipe he supplauntith- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
c. 1382–1395, John Wycliffe [et al.], edited by Josiah Forshall and Frederic Madden, The Holy Bible, , volume III, Oxford: At the University Press, published 1850, →OCLC, Isaiah LII:14, page 319, column 1:As stoneȝeden vp on hym manye, so vnglorious shal ben among men his siȝte, and the foorme of hym among the sonus of men.- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- Not glorious
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