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hybris
[ hahy-bris ]
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Derived Forms
- hyˈbristic, adjective
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Other Words From
- hy·bristic adjective
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Example Sentences
The crime of hybris, which to the Greeks was the "unforgivable sin," is here made as real to us as it was to them.
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The vice which they denounced was hybris, wilful bondbreaking—wilful transgression of the socially appointed bounds.
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Insolent disregard of propriety, "hybris," was the quality most denounced by the early moralizing poets.
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