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gloze
[ glohz ]
verb (used with object)
, glozed, gloz·ing.
- to explain away; extenuate; gloss over (usually followed by over ).
verb (used without object)
, glozed, gloz·ing.
- Archaic. to make glosses; comment.
noun
- Archaic. flattery or deceit.
- Obsolete. a specious show.
gloze
/ ɡləʊz /
verb
- troften foll byover to explain away; minimize the effect or importance of
- to make explanatory notes or glosses on (a text)
- to use flattery (on)
noun
- flattery or deceit
- an explanatory note or gloss
- specious or deceptive talk or action
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Other Words From
- glozing·ly adverb
- un·glozed adjective
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Word History and Origins
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Word History and Origins
Origin of gloze1
C13: from Old French glosser to comment; see gloss ²
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Example Sentences
It was the case of Esau; he was bidden sell his birthright for pottage, and affection could not gloze over the bargain.
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One marked aspect of recent devil-fiction is the tendency to gloze over his sins and to humanize him.
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You know as well as I that it does not gloze a poor book, nor pass over defects in silence.
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The verb to gloss, or gloze, means simply to explain or translate, from Greco-Lat.
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It is astonishing the trouble men will be at to find out when to plant potatoes, and gloze over the eternal meaning of the skies.
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