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Definition of Hubris
1. Noun. Overbearing pride or presumption.
Definition of Hubris
1. Noun. Excessive pride, presumption or arrogance (originally toward the gods). ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Hubris
1. arrogance [n -BRISES] - See also: arrogance
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hubris
Literary usage of Hubris
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Rise of the Greek Epic: Being a Course of Lectures Delivered at Harvard by Gilbert Murray (1911)
"There are unseen barriers which a man who has Aidos in him does not wish to pass.
hubris passes them all. hubris does not see that the poor ..."
2. Death by Default: A Policy of Fatal Neglect in China's State Orphanages by Robin Munro (1996)
"The Great Leap Forward: hubris and Collapse The Anti-Rightist Campaign was quickly
overshadowed for most ordinary Chinese by Mao Zedong's proclamation in ..."
3. Philistia by Cecil Power, Grant Allen (1884)
"hubris, you know, is Greek for insolence; at least, not quite insolence, ...
It was hubris in Agamemnon and Xerxes to go swelling about and ruffling ..."
4. Studies in the History of Ideas by Columbia University Dept. of Philosophy (1918)
"And hubris is the typical sin condemned of early ... derived from words meaning 'ugly'
or 'unfitting', seem nearly all to be forms or derivations of hubris. ..."
5. Strategic Transformation and Naval Power in the 21st Century by Pelham G. Boyer, Robert S. Wood (1998)
"Liberal internationalism can generate a dangerous hubris. A naval strategy that
panders to the hubris is unlikely in the long run to serve the interests of ..."
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