Gloze

During the 19th century, "gloze" briefly took on the additional meaning "to brighten" (adapting the meaning of another, unrelated "gloss" referring to luster or brightness), but by the end of that century all uses of "gloze" had faded into relative obscurity. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Seek not to impute folly to the goddesses, in the attempt to gloze o'er thy own sin; never wilt thou persuade the wise. ❋ Unknown (2008)

What she wants, really, is to keep you entranced forever in the soft silly gloze of adolescence, to have you perpetually saying farewell to the warm womb but never once peeking out for just one look at reality. ❋ Ann Althouse (2008)

A gloss of genuine religious revulsion and sense of duty would have to gloze over the malice entailed. ❋ Peters, Ellis, 1913- (1989)

The speech of truth is simple, and those things which are just need not wily interpretations; for they have energy themselves; but the unjust speech, unsound in itself, requires cunning preparations to gloze it. ❋ 480? BC-406 BC Euripides (N/A)

Official attempts to gloze over the incident would have been amusing if they were not pathetic. ❋ Unknown (N/A)

The ham dip gaed up the lum in a gloze, an 'here was Sandy an' Dauvid's wife lyin 'i' the middle o 'a' the mairter o 'rubbitch. ❋ J. B. Salmond (N/A)

For vaunting that with his tongue he can well gloze over injustice, he dares to work deceit, but he is not over-wise. ❋ 480? BC-406 BC Euripides (N/A)

He knew his father never cared for him, though his mother tried her best to gloze over the indifference of her husband. ❋ Unknown (1924)

This case, so pathetically ordinary that most of us are debased by acquaintance with similar, to this girl was fresh, and striking her in all its inexcusable barbarity without any extenuating gloze, made her furious with pained and righteous indignation. ❋ Miles Franklin (1916)

But she smiled and her lips were parted sweetly; and always unformed tears would gloze her eyes. ❋ Various (1915)

You dare here under Heaven to stand and lie to me that you may give false gloze to the villainy of your present deed -- for that is the purpose of your falsehood, since you asked me what purpose there could be for it. ❋ Rafael Sabatini (1912)

He had never lied to her or sought to gloze over his weakness. ❋ Robert Ames Bennet (1912)

At dark the old man lit two lamps, which served dimly to gloze the shadows, and thrust logs of wood into the cast-iron stove. ❋ Stewart Edward White (1909)

It was the case of Esau; he was bidden sell his birthright for pottage, and affection could not gloze over the bargain. ❋ John Buchan (1907)

Any attempt to gloze the situation, he felt, would be futile. ❋ Louis Joseph Vance (1906)

For they might not overlook nor gloze the fact that hers had been the hands responsible for the theft of the jewels; innocent though she had been in committing that larceny, a cat's-paw guided by an intelligence unscrupulous and malign, the law would not hold her guiltless were she once brought within its cognizance. ❋ Louis Joseph Vance (1906)

In a day whose superficiality is only equalled by the ease with which we gloze over the faults of the unprepared, this bit of information of Livingstone's preparation comes like a refreshing reminder that true worth is always worth while. ❋ Various (1905)