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单词 hybris
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hybrisn.

/ˈhʌɪbrɪs/
Etymology: < Greek ὕβρις.
=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).
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