glory = 'awesome horror'

[Laurence Horn]

On Nov 8, 2012, at 11:25 AM, Jonathan Lighter wrote:

> http://www.livescience.com/22855-paleo-art-dinosaurs.html
>
> "[Illustrator] Robert Nicholls captures dinosaur death in all its glory."
>
> OED 8, "a state of exaltation and splendour" doesn't cut it.
>
> Maybe there needs to be a special def. of "in all (one's) glory" : 'at
> one's most impressive.'
>
A natural evolution from the earlier attested meaning of _glory_ as 'a nice knock-down argument'

LH

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