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
To gloze over your deeds and machinations, to deny the dark cowardly work that has stabbed my peace for ever!
From Infelice by Augusta J. (Augusta Jane) Evans
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 Henry Rider Haggard
True, his accent had not that subtle gloze, that consonantal softness and intonation that mark the Southron, but he was a Southron for all that, and one of themselves.
From The Valiants of Virginia by Hallie Erminie Rives
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 Lydia Howard Sigourney
For Shelley laws are “obscure records of dark and barbarous echos,” “tomes of reasoned wrong glozed on by ignorance.”
From The Radicalism of Shelley and Its Sources by Daniel J. MacDonald
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 George W. (George Washington) Ogden
So long as this apparently inevitable and irremediable discord does not appear to affect the general march of events, it is glozed over.
From Paris from the Earliest Period to the Present Day; Volume 1 by William Walton
And then she glozed the thing over with one of those patent glosses which the devil provides when the occasion needs them.
From A Woman Perfected by Richard Marsh
So the matter might be adjudged elsewhere, but in this world glozed and softened.
From Sir Mortimer by Mary Johnston
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
But at no point are they so futile as in toning down, glozing over, or altogether ignoring all those immoralities, weaknesses, defects, and failures which perhaps are the very Hallmark of Genius.
From Impressions and Comments by Havelock Ellis
He rejected all the glozing euphemisms which had lulled the House of Lords.
From Fifteen Chapters of Autobiography by George William Erskine Russell
They are especially admirable in the putting forth of sentiments, in glozing over a subtle difficulty in love, in tying a knot of silk or fastening a lock of hair to their bonnet.
From Gossip in a Library by Edmund Gosse
Thou wouldst forge some glozing tale to beguile the ears of that poor stricken lady, Penelope.
From Stories from the Odyssey by H. L. (Herbert Lord) Havell
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