unglossedとは 意味・読み方・使い方

形容詞

unglossed (not comparable)

1. Lacking a gloss (explanatory note).
   • 2014, Eddy Kent, Corporate Character:

     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.
   • 1950, The Law Journal - Volume 100, page 70:

     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 !

   • 2014, Laura Gawlinski, Craig A. Mauzy, The Athenian Agora, page 120:

     In the last stage, the return of the oxygen left the fabric and any unglossed section red, while the gloss, which had sintered (particles fused together without melting), turned black.

   • 2015, Amy Plantinga-Pauw, Proverbs and Ecclesiastes: A Theological Commentary on the Bible:

     Holiness, this ancient rule says to a culture that has made crafty packaging high art, has something to do with being who we say we are, claiming our truths, opening our hearts, giving ourselves to the other pure and unglossed.