gloze
Americanverb (used with object)
verb (used without object)
noun
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Archaic. flattery or deceit.
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Obsolete. a specious show.
verb
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to explain away; minimize the effect or importance of
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to make explanatory notes or glosses on (a text)
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to use flattery (on)
noun
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flattery or deceit
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an explanatory note or gloss
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specious or deceptive talk or action
Other Word Forms
Etymology
Origin of gloze
1250–1300; Middle English < Old French gloser < Medieval Latin glossāre; see gloss 2
Example Sentences
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"For illustration, here are some shorties which we'd call real $7 words, and wouldn't use here at this time without explanation: adit, erg, ergo, ohm, gloze, cozen, griff, modal, mure, snash, viable."
From Time Magazine Archive
I will not shun to uphold The righteous cause, nor will I gloze the wrong With flattering titles, lest the kindling wrath Of an offended Maker, sweep me hence.
From Man of Uz, and Other Poems by Sigourney, Lydia Howard
You see, gloze it over as they may, one thing is clear, it is finished with England.
From Tancred Or, The New Crusade by Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield
It's the pair o' them," Tommy said to Elspeth at the first opportunity, "that sometimes comes here at nights and kindles the fire and warms themsels at the gloze.
From Sentimental Tommy The Story of His Boyhood by Barrie, J. M. (James Matthew)
I wish to gloze over nothing; I did not make my own nature, and in these pages I describe it as it was and is without palliation or excuse.
From Doctor Therne by Haggard, Henry Rider
So the matter might be adjudged elsewhere, but in this world glozed and softened.
From Sir Mortimer by Johnston, Mary
It cannot be glozed over or minimized away by all the treatises on God, and Love, and Being, helplessly existing in their haughty monumental vacuity.
From Pragmatism by James, William
They glozed his faults and made virtues out of his close-grained traits; they praised and lamented, with sighs and mournful words, but Isom’s widow could not weep.
From The Bondboy by Ogden, George W. (George Washington)
It is an indication of the inveterate prejudice which has infected the Whig historians of the period, that this scandalous iniquity has been glozed over, or, at the most, timidly criticized.
From Life of Edward Earl of Clarendon — Volume 02 by Clarendon, Edward Hyde, Earl of
Miss Binswanger raised her eyes, great dark pools glozed over with tears.
From Every Soul Hath Its Song by Hurst, Fannie
Everywhere in art and literature that we meet the devil or his minions, they are tempting and glozing and generally making themselves tricky.
From "Words Like Loaded Pistols" by Sam Leith
Me canst thou cheat with glozing wile Till self-reproach away I cast,— Me with joy's lure canst thou beguile;— Let that day be for me the last!
From The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 01 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English. by Francke, Kuno
Sir, I call things by their proper names, stripped of the glozing drapery of conventional usage.
From St. Elmo by Evans, Augusta J. (Augusta Jane)
By way of glozing over these incongruities Lenin's ukase proclaimed that the measures enacted were only provisional, and aimed at enabling Russia to realize the great transformation by degrees.
From The Inside Story of the Peace Conference by Dillon, Emile Joseph
Here are no sons of Atreus nor glozing Ulysses.
From The Aeneid of Virgil by Virgil
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