单词 | hybris |
释义 | hybrisn. =hubris n. 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 1920 Public Opinion 27 Aug. 195/2 During one of these the oppressor, possessed of place and power, imagined in his hybris, that he might extend his arm across the ocean. 1929 Encycl. Brit. XXII. 53/1 Themis is the servant or companion of Zeus... Her opposite is Hybris (ὕβρις), insolent encroachment upon the rights of others. 1949 Horizon Aug. 87 Hybris means believing that you are a god, i.e., that you cannot suffer; pride means a defiant attempt to become a god. 1969 Commonweal 22 Aug. 524 America, like all earlier empires, is going to march to the brink of hybris and plunge in. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online March 2018). < n.1920 |
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