How to pronounce“glimpse”in English
very very old language that goes back to Anglo-Saxon uh most of it uh but it was fascinating to get a little bit a
glimpse into into the world of the Freemasons because they're trying to make an active effort to uh come out and
promote themselves as great charity workers they do they do actually do a lot for charity they contribute a lot uh to various
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Definitions of “glimpse”
To see or view (someone, or something tangible) briefly and incompletely.
“Morning!—the Vestal Mother of the Sun / Seem'st thou to be, since from thy bosom born, / (Thou that first glimpsest—like a white-stoled nun!—) / He springeth forth—Oh! thou triumphal Morn!— / His race of glory and of joy to run; […]”
To perceive (something intangible) briefly and incompletely.
“I have only begun to glimpse the magnitude of the problem.”
Chiefly followed by of: a brief and incomplete look.
“I only got a glimpse of the car, so I can tell you the colour but not the registration number.”
A brief, sudden flash of light; a glimmer.
“[W]hat may this meane, / That thou, dead corſe, againe in compleate ſteele, / Reuiſſits thus the glimſes of the Moone, / Making night hideous, and vve fooles of nature, / So horridely to ſhake our diſpoſition, / VVith thoughts beyond the reaches of our ſoules?”
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