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Hubris   /hjˈubrəs/   Listen
Hubris

noun
1.
Overbearing pride or presumption.






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"Hubris" Quotes from Famous Books



... sentimental repining. He takes arms against the sea of troubles. Instead of an excellent youth pitifully done to death by a jealous brother, we get a towering idealist who is the moulder of his own fate. With sublime [Greek: hubris] he takes it upon himself to wield the avenging bolts of Jove, but finds that Jove rejects his assistance. He errs disastrously in his judgment, like any short-sighted mortal, and his work goes all agley. ...
— The Life and Works of Friedrich Schiller • Calvin Thomas



Words linked to "Hubris" :   lordliness, arrogance, haughtiness, hauteur, high-handedness



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