单词 | hubris |
释义 | hubrisn. Presumption, originally towards the gods; pride, excessive self-confidence. ΘΚΠ 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). < n.1884 |
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