promote to Glory

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promote to Glory (third-person singular simple present promotes to Glory, present participle promoting to Glory, simple past and past participle promoted to Glory)

  1. (of a Salvationist) To cause to die
    • 2004, John H. Watson, Christians Observed: Narratives for Today's Church, page 20:
      On the night when she was 'Promoted to Glory' by the metal chariot of a teenage drunkard, she was yet full of love for the Salvation Army, for God and for mankind.