hubrist

词形变化

hubrists 复数 hubrists

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A person prone to, or guilty of hubris

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

    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.

    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