gloze
/ɡləʊz/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 0.00 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
1
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A comment in the margin; explanatory note; gloss; commentary.
noun
noun
verb
To use flattering language.
verb
To smooth over; to palliate by specious explanation.
Example Sentences
- "So we o’ershroud stars and roses, Cherub and trophy and garland. Nothings grow something which quietly closes Heaven’s earnest eye,—not a glimpse of the far land Gets through our comments and glozes."
- "1903, Cuthbert Atchley, The Parish Clerk, and his Right to Read the Liturgical Epistle, Alcuin Club Tracts IV, London: Longmans, Green & Co., p. 15, The state of practice in the first half of the fifteenth century may be gathered from the gloze of Nicholas de Tudeschis, called Panormitan, on the text Ut quisque which we have quoted above."
- "The relation of certain words in the original to the practice of my translation may require gloze."
- "[…] if Virtue aught may crave, or Heav’n, Beware, alike, of factious leagues, impure, And courtly glozes vile."
- "No tender word or dainty gloze Could give him pleasure half so fine As that which tingled to her blows."
- "We have flattered thee, O Lord, with our tongues, and dissembled in our double hearts like the Israelites, whom thou hast fearfully punished in the sight of all the world, and saluted thee long with Judas kiss; to wit, with a vizard and show of religion, with the gloze of outward profession, drawing near thee with our lips, but our hearts far from thee […]"
Etymology
From Middle English glosen, from Old French gloser, from Medieval Latin glossa. Doublet of gloss and glossa.