Especially after the rains do they screen what passes below, but at all times, even when scorched or leafless, they glorify the city to the English people who inhabit the rise, so that new-comers cannot believe it to be as meagre as it is described, and have to be driven down to acquire disillusionment.
E. M. Forster, A Passage to India
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Merriam-Webster
— to make glorious by bestowing honor, praise, or admiration
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Macmillan
— to make someone or something seem more impressive than they really are
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Collins
— To glorify something means to praise it or make it seem good or special, usually when it is not.
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1 use of ‘glorify’ in A Passage to India, by E. M. Forster