glozing

1. gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of gloze

plural glozings

1. The act of one who glozes; flattery; deceit.

   I under fair pretence of friendly ends, And well-plac't words of glozing courtesie ...

   Comus

   1634 October 9 (first performance; Gregorian calendar), [John Milton], edited by H[enry] Lawes, A Maske Presented at Ludlow Castle, 1634: […] [Comus], London: […] [Augustine Matthews] for Hvmphrey Robinson, […], published 1637, →OCLC; reprinted as Comus: […] (Dodd, Mead & Company’s Facsimile Reprints of Rare Books; Literature Series; no. I), New York, N.Y.: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1903, →OCLC, page Mark

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   […] hypocrisy will at length be unmasked, their glozings will be in time discovered […]

   1840, Thomas Fuller, The History of the University of Cambridge