English Dictionary

gloze

IPA（発音記号）

/ɡləʊz/

動詞

文語

(literary) To extenuate, explain away, gloss over. / To use flattering language. / To smooth over; to palliate by specious explanation. / To give a shine to (something or someone).

日本語の意味

（文芸的表現）事実や問題を軽く扱い、弱める、またはごまかして説明する / お世辞を使う、うまく取り繕う / 見かけ上の説明で問題を隠す、あるいは軽くする / 物事や人に光沢を与える、輝かせる

She attempted to gloze his abrupt departure as a spontaneous decision, but her explanation raised more questions than it answered.

彼女は彼の急な出発を突発的な決断だと言い繕おうとしたが、彼女の説明はかえって多くの疑問を呼び起こした。

意味（1）

(literary) To extenuate, explain away, gloss over.

Heaven, that I had thy head! he has found the meaning: But I will gloze with him.

意味（2）

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.

意味（3）

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 ideal of human nature […]

意味（4）

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.

glozes （ present singular third-person ）

glozing （ participle present ）

glozed （ participle past ）

glozed （ past ）