hybris

Historical Examples

• The crime of hybris, which to the Greeks was the "unforgivable sin," is here made as real to us as it was to them.

  Five Plays

  Edward John Dunsany

• Insolent disregard of propriety, "hybris," was the quality most denounced by the early moralizing poets.

  Ethics

  John Dewey and James Hayden Tufts

• The vice which they denounced was hybris, wilful bondbreaking—wilful transgression of the socially appointed bounds.

  An Introduction to the Philosophy of Law

  Roscoe Pound