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ˈglavering, ppl. a. Obs. exc. arch.
[f. glaver v. + -ing2.]
That ‘glavers’; deceitful, flattering.
c1394P. Pl. Crede 51 Þat wicked folke..bigileþ hem of her good wiþ glauerynge wordes. a1400Morte Arth. 2538 Siche glauerande gomes greues me bot lyttille. 1563–87Foxe A. & M. (1596) 1423/1 The Chauncellor with a glauering and smiling countenance, called to the Bishop. 1601B. Jonson Poetaster iii. iv. (1602) F 3 b, Giue him warning, Admonition, to forsake his sawcy glauering Grace. 1670Stucley Gospel-Glass xxv. 242 A glavering tongue and seeming affection to our Neighbours good. 1694R. L'Estrange Fables 90 A glavering Council is as dangerous on the one hand, as a wheedling Priest..is on the other. a1716South Serm. (1717) VI. 121 Some slavish, glavering, flattering Parasite. 17..Fielding Ess. Char. Men Wks. 1771 VIII. 164 A constant, settled, glavering, sneering smile in the countenance, is so far from indicating goodness, that [etc.]. 1753Gray's Inn Jrnl. (1756) II. 10 Drawn in by false Allurements and a glavering Smile. 1866Athenæum 7 July 23/3 The doorkeeper is a wily, elderly Italian..He..holds his face forwards, and looks down, with a steady glavering smile, or simper, in the corners of his mouth.
b. fig. of things.
1581J. Bell Haddon's Answ. Osor. 466 b, Such as in tymes past did persequute the Gospell of Christ..being seduced by glavering conceipt of colorable error. 1609Bp. W. Barlow Answ. Namless Cath. 363 Whom this Censurer heere vouchsafeth to besmeare with his glauering balme. |