Gloze

/ɡləʊz/ · noun

Meaning

A comment in the margin; explanatory note; gloss; commentary..

Definitions by Sense

1. A comment in the margin; explanatory note; gloss; commentary.
2. Flattery.
3. (False) appearance.
4. A specious show, a deceit.
5. (literary) To extenuate, explain away, gloss over.
6. To use flattering language.
7. To smooth over; to palliate by specious explanation.
8. To give a shine to (something or someone).

Example Sentences

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.

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.

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.

1859, Leander Clark, “Sonnet No. 6” in Kenridge Hall, and Other Poems, Washington: Franklin Philp, p. 72, Wear not the mask of Love upon thy face, For fear my eye discern; ’twere better veil The sweet serenity Love’s eye would trace, Than with its gloze to make his visage stale.

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 […]

Himself, he hints, is ever in the throes Of some grim struggle for his Self’s control. M’Corkle lies. He never fought. Speech is his rôle. He’s putty, and his holiness all gloze.

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• glozes
• glozing
• glozed

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