hubris
nounGraduateELO 1,400GREGMAT
DEFINITION
overbearing pride or presumption
WEBSTER'S 1913
The act or habit of arrogating, or making undue claims in an overbearing manner; that species of pride which consists in exorbitant claims of rank, dignity, estimation, or power, or which exalts the worth or importance of the person to an undue degree; proud contempt of others; lordliness; haughtine
ETYMOLOGY
Greek hybris, arrogance
SYNONYMS
IN LITERATURE
“It was a hateful smile of hubris against him and all his male counterparts to whom a woman, and a female to a lesser degree, supplicated herself.”
— Steven David Justin Sills, Tokyo to Tijuana: Gabriele Departing America
IN USE
“The aulos was picked up by the satyr Marsyas, who was later killed by Apollo for his hubris.”
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