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Pangloss

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Pangloss (ˈpænɡlɒs)
n
1. a person who views a situation with unwarranted optimism
Panˈglossian adj
[C19: after Dr Pangloss, a character in Voltaire's Candide (1759)]
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Noun1.Pangloss - an incurable optimist in a satire by Voltaire


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This world was not then so good as Doctor Pangloss believed it, neither was it so wicked as Dantes thought it, since this man, who had nothing to expect from his comrade but the inheritance of his share of the prize-money, manifested so much sorrow when he saw him fall.
Pangloss for himself; and very earnestly, but very unsuccessfully, trying to persuade the others that there were some fine tragic parts in the rest of the dramatis personae.
 
 
 

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