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▪ I. glaring, vbl. n.|ˈglɛərɪŋ|
[See -ing1.]
The action of the verb glare, in various senses.
1563J. Man Musculus' Commonpl. 149 b, Thei whiche..are oftentimes trained oute of the waie of truth, by the likely glarings [L. spectris] of reason. 1667Pepys Diary (1877) V. 455 A chimney-piece of Dancre's doing, in distemper, with egg to keep off the glaring of the light. 1706Refl. Ridic. 51 Those perpetual discourses..are but counterfeit glarings to dazzle a too credulous husband. 1786tr. Beckford's Vathek (1868) 46 The glaring of eyes which could belong only to devils or tigers.
▪ II. ˈglaring, ppl. a.
[See -ing2.]
That glares.
1. Of the eyes: Staring fiercely or wildly.
c1386Chaucer Prol. 684 Swiche glarynge eyen hadde he as an hare. a1600Hayes in Hakluyt Voy. III. 158 He passed along..yawning and gaping wide, with ougly demonstration of long teeth and glaring eies. 1697Dryden Virg. Georg. iii. 658 He leaves the Fens, and leaps upon the Ground; And hissing, rowls his glaring Eyes around. 1827Pollok Course T. ix, Trying whiles to send his glaring eye Beyond the wide circumference of his woe.
†b. Bright, sparkling. Obs. rare—1.
1622Drayton Poly-olb. xxi. 72 And looke my manly face, in thy sweet glaring eyes.
2. That gives out or reflects a dazzling light. Also of light, colours, etc.: Vivid, dazzling, excessively bright.
1515Scot. Field 61 in Chetham Misc. (1856) II, He durst not counter with our king..For all the glaring [Percy MS. gloring] goulde, under god of heaven! 1638F. Junius Paint. Ancients 339 A phlegmaticke eye..abhorreth all manner of bright and glaring colours. 1693Dryden Persius, Sat. iii. 1 The glaring Sun Breaks in at ev'ry Chink. 1739J. Trapp Righteous Over-m. (1758) 64 These Ignes Fatui, these glaring Meteors. 1833H. Martineau Vanderput & S. i. 2 Reflected in gleams upon the glaring white fronts of the houses. 1850Kingsley Alt. Locke i, As the midnight brightened into dawn and the glaring lamps grew pale. 1879Farrar St. Paul (1883) 139 They had been traversing a bare, bleak, glaring, undulating plain.
fig.a1653G. Daniel Idyll iii. 35 Kings Suffer, when they give Inhærent Light, long-fixt Prærogative, To fill a glareing Office. 1749J. Edwards Life Brainerd App. 294 The glistering Appearance and glaring Show of false Religion dazzles their eyes. 1766Fordyce Serm. Yng. Wom. (1767) I. ii. 73 Distinguish between what is glaring and what is genteel.
3. That displays itself openly; obtrusively evident or conspicuous. Now chiefly with ns. which have a bad sense, as fault, falsehood, etc.
1706Refl. Ridic. 42 A man ought not to descend to a slavish and glaring complaisance. 1718Atterbury Serm. (1737) III. 186 Such a glaring proof of his resurrection. 1748Anson's Voy. ii. vii. 209 There were some few..incapable of discerning the force of equity, however glaring. 1812H. & J. Smith Rej. Addr. x. (1873) 94 To elude this glaring absurdity. 1850McCosh Div. Govt. ii. ii. 193 Let us notice some of the more glaring defects of the work. 1869Freeman Norm. Conq. (1876) III. xii. 245 These glaring contradictions do not indeed affect the belief that there is some groundwork of fact for the story. |