Meanings
- not comparableLacking a gloss (explanatory note).
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More recently Stephen Arata has come to a similar conclusion when he argues that the fiction and poetry of the 1880s and 1890s “explicitly rebuffed the English reader” through their copious use of “the untranslated phrase, the unglossed allusion, the in-joke, the unapologetic gesture towards structures of feeling and experience which had no counterpart outside the enclosed world of Anglo-India."
2014, Eddy Kent, Corporate Character - not comparableNot glossed; without embellishment.
How happy is he born and taught That serveth not another's will ; Whose broadsword is his honest thought, And truth ungloss'd his utmost skill !
1950, The Law Journal - Volume 100, page 702 more examples
In the last stage, the return of the oxygen left the fabric and any unglossed section red, while the gloss, which had sintered (particles fused together without melting), turned black.
2014, Laura Gawlinski, Craig A. Mauzy, The Athenian Agora, page 120Holiness, this ancient rule says to a culture that has made crafty packaging high art, has something to do with being who we say we are, claiming our truths, opening our hearts, giving ourselves to the other pure and unglossed.
2015, Amy Plantinga-Pauw, Proverbs and Ecclesiastes: A Theological Commentary on the Bible
- participlepastsimple past and past participle of ungloss
Origin
- Middle Englishunglosed
- Englishunglossed
From Middle English unglosed; equivalent to un- + glossed.
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