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Webster 1828 Edition


Glossing

GLOSS'ING

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ppr.
Giving luster to; polishing; explaining by comments; giving a specious appearance.

Definition 2024


glossing

glossing

English

Verb

glossing

  1. present participle of gloss

Noun

glossing (plural glossings)

  1. The addition of a gloss, or explanatory note.
    • 2012, C. Scott Dixon, Contesting the Reformation
      And it was in this university that the doctors began to sharpen their wits in matters of Holy Writ; they rejected the glossings and musings of interpreters and took the biblical writings to hand, preaching and writing thereof.

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