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hybris

/hahy-bris/US // ˈhaɪ brɪs //UK // (ˈhaɪbrɪs) //

蕙兰,蕙质兰心,蕙智,蕙蕙

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : hubris.

Examples

  • The crime of hybris, which to the Greeks was the "unforgivable sin," is here made as real to us as it was to them.

  • The vice which they denounced was hybris, wilful bondbreaking—wilful transgression of the socially appointed bounds.

  • Insolent disregard of propriety, "hybris," was the quality most denounced by the early moralizing poets.