gloze
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gloze
- /ɡləʊz/
Sounds like glows · Rhymes with -əʊz
Where it comes from
From Middle English glosen, from Old French gloser, from Medieval Latin glossa. Doublet of gloss and glossa.
noun glozes
- A comment in the margin; explanatory note; gloss; commentary. 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.
- Flattery. […] if Virtue aught may crave, or Heav’n, Beware, alike, of factious leagues, impure, And courtly glozes vile.
- appearance. 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
- A specious show, a deceit. Now to plain-dealing; lay these glozes by: Shall we resolve to woo these girls of France?
verb glozes · glozing · glozed
- To extenuate, explain away, gloss over. Heaven, that I had thy head! he has found the meaning: But I will gloze with him.
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To use flattering language.
[…] looke to see the throne where you should sit,
To floate in bloud, and at thy wanton head,
The glozing head of thy base minion throwne.
Similar: jolly, lay it on thick, puff, brush up to, collogue, flatter, flatterize, glaver, gloze, make fair weather, palaver, preen
- To smooth over; to palliate by specious explanation. On this ground it is that Christianity works its way in Christianizing a community—if only it have free scope. It does this, not by glozing the evil that is in the world; not by extenuating, or by exaggerating the damage which human nature has sustained; but it does so by raising, in all minds, the
- To give a shine to (something or someone). The scanty light glozed them with the glory of day, and, forgetful of pain and thirst and hunger, and of the menace of death, they sank upon the floor and cried, keeping fast hold of each other the while.
Talk about this word "gloze." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/gloze. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026. gloze. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/gloze "gloze." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/gloze.Cite this
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