Meanings
noungloriosity (uncountable)
- rareuncountablegloriousness
Aeschylus was the second writer of ancient Greece whose humiliating death served as a text against poetic gloriosity. The familiar story of the eagle's dropping a turtle upon his head impressed many a critic and moralist […]
1946, Studies in Philology, volume 43, page 216
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