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gloria.

(a loanword from Spanish)

Headword: 
gloria.
Principal English Translation: 

glory
(a loanword from Spanish)

Attestations from sources in English: 

yn ompa yn neçencuiltonoloyan, neçentlamachtiloyan gloria yn oncan = the place of supreme happiness, blessedness, glory
Andrés Sáenz de la Peña, Manual de los Santo Sacramentos, 1643, f. 34v.; translation by Mark Z. Christensen, "Nahua and Maya Catholicisms: Ecclesiastical Texts and Local Religion in Colonial Central Mexico and Yucatan," Ph.D. Dissertation, Pennsylvania State University, 2010, Appendix E, 15.

itetlamachtiayantzinco in gloria = his place of happiness, glory (late sixteenth century, Central Mexico)
Louise M. Burkhart, Before Guadalupe: The Virgin Mary in Early Colonial Nahuatl Literature, Institute for Mesoamerican Studies Monograph 13 (Albany: University at Albany, 2001), 134.

themes: 
Religion (Christian)