Unglossed
adj, verb ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 simple past and past participle of ungloss form-of, participle, past
- 1 Lacking a gloss (explanatory note). not-comparable
"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.""
- 2 Not glossed; without embellishment. not-comparable
"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 !"
Example
More examples"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.""
Etymology
From Middle English unglosed; equivalent to un- + glossed.
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