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单词 hubris
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hubrisn.

/ˈhjuːbrɪs/
Etymology: < Greek ὕβρις (compare hybris n.).
Presumption, originally towards the gods; pride, excessive self-confidence.
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the mind > emotion > pride > overweening or presumption > [noun]
presumptiona1250
overweena1300
jollitya1340
overweening1340
overhopec1390
surfeitryc1425
presumptuousnessa1450
outrecuidance?c1450
sauciness1534
presumptiousness1550
presume1590
confidence1597
assuming1602
self-assumption1609
overweeningness1621
self-assuming1644
assumingnessa1832
assumptiousness1870
hubris1884
hybris1920
1884 Daily News 28 Oct. (Ware) Boys of good family, who have always been toadied, and never been checked, who are full of health and high spirits, develop what Academic slang knows as hubris, a kind of high-flown insolence.
1923 J. M. Murry Pencillings 272 So confident indeed did I become that I began to join in the scholarly chuckle at the vainglorious and foolhardy man—was ever a purer case of hubris?
1924 G. B. Shaw St. Joan v. 60 You have stained yourself with the sin of pride. The old Greek tragedy is rising among us. It is the chastisement of hubris.
1950 A. Huxley Themes & Variations 259 The Greeks..knew very well that hubris against the essentially divine order of Nature would be followed by its appropriate nemesis.
a1963 C. S. Lewis Poems (1964) 3 Walk carefully, do not wake the envy of the happy gods, Shun Hubris.
1965 Listener 23 Sept. 449/2 There they learned morality and conduct; the virtues of nobility and the golden mean and the menace of hubris.
1971 Country Life 11 Mar. 541/1 Not much in the way of punishment for hubris will be seen falling on the heads of the publicity-maniacs.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online March 2019).
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