Gloze

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Gloze GLOHZ (verb) To mask the true nature of, give a deceptively attractive appearance to

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Gloze GLOHZ (verb) To mask the true nature of, give a deceptively attractive appearance to

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Gloze GLOHZ (verb) To mask the true nature of, give a deceptively attractive appearance to

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_Gloze_ is from the old word _glose_, a gloss or explanation (Gr. _glossa_, the tongue): hence also glossary, glossology, etc. Trench, in his lecture on the Morality of Words, points out how often fair names are given to ugly things: it is in this way that a word which merely denoted an explanation has come to denote a false explanation, an endeavour to deceive.

Milton's Comus John Milton 1641
* Gloze: For tormenting the curly-haired child with a something to frighten a baby intentionally, the fiercelooking fellow was sent to a prison without a window.

VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol IV No 3 1977