ethe
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Etymology 1
From the Ancient Greek ἤθη (ḗthē), the contracted nominative plural form of ἦθος (êthos).
Pronunciation
Noun
ethe
- plural of ethos
- 1892, Bernhard Bosanquet, A History of Aesthetic, page 72:
- And it is a further proof of our view, that beginners in poetry attain completeness in expression and ethe [plural of ethos], before they are capable of composing the march of incidents; almost all the earliest poets are instances of this.
- 1942, Journal of Legal and Political Sociology, International Universities Press, page 85:
- The relation between social groups and their ethe is rational; they vary in fixed ratios.
- 2003, Patchen Markell, Bound by Recognition, page 76:
- […] it makes sense to say that these speeches are representations of their ethe.
Etymology 2
See eath.
Adjective
ethe (comparative more ethe, superlative most ethe)
- (obsolete) easy
- 1579, Edmund Spenser, “The Shepheardes Calender”, in The Poetical Works of Edmund Spenser, Volume 4, Charles C. Little and James Brown, published 1839, page 330:
- Hereto, the hilles bene nigher heaven, / And thence the passage ethe; / As well can proove the piercing levin, / That seldome falles beneath.
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