pleonexia

• For him, music is still everywhere in the world, and the whole business of philosophy only as it were the correct editing of it: as it will be the whole business of the state to repress, in the great concert, the jarring self-assertion (pleonexia)+ of those whose voices have large natural power in them. —  Plato and Platonism
• +Transliteration: poikilia, pleonexia, polypragmosynę. —  Plato and Platonism
• The Greeks call the violation of this law pleonexia; that is, —  Leviathan
• +Transliteration: poikilia, pleonexia, polypragmosynê. —  Plato and Platonism
• If, as I think may fairly be done, the glory of the Legend be chiefly claimed for none of these, but for English or Anglo-Norman, it can be done in no spirit of national _pleonexia_, but on a sober consideration of all the facts of the case, and allowing all other claimants their fair share in the matter as subsidiaries. —  The Flourishing of Romance and the Rise of Allegory (Periods of European Literature, vol. II)

Allen's Synonyms and Antonyms