hubrist

plural hubrists

1. A person prone to, or guilty of hubris

   I had been an arrogant defiler of womanhood, a hubrist of the worst order!

   1978 Peter Edler The Dooming Eye: A Novel Page 54

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   Aeschylus' Agamemnon recalled to the audience Xerxes, who was damned as a hubrist without distinction in the eyes of the Hellenes for burning the temples of Phocis and Attica.

   1994 Pericles Georges Barbarian Asia and the Greek Experience Page 58

   2006S. Giora Shoham Ark in the Authentic Domain Page 32. The hubrist in the Greek basis of worth anchored on central measures meaning of culpability. Because the vengeful Furies in charge of suppressing hubris were not impressed by extenuating subjective arguments, the objective justification for their enforcing the law against hubris was that those who seek the unprovable or pursue the unfathomable are bound to get hurt.

   The hubrist's overconfidence results in them misinterpreting the reality of the situation in which they find themselves and this leads ultimately to hubristic incompetence, and catastrophic misjudgement

   2024Eugene Sadler-Smith The Hubris Hazard, and How To Avoid It ISBN: 978-0-367-62679-2