pangloss in English
noun
1
a person who is optimistic regardless of the circumstances.
By the novel's end Pawkie, like a Scottish Pangloss , is announcing that reform is in the air and that the world is becoming better and better.
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1. This means - for - ends inversion of the socio - biologists is about as grotesque as that of Prof . Pangloss ' s demonstration in Voltaire ' s inimitable satire , Candide , that the nose was formed to bear spectacles , legs were visibly designed for stockings , stones to construct castles and some other similar absurdities .