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Ethe

//ˈiːθiː// adj, noun

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    easy obsolete

    "Hereto, the hilles bene nigher heaven, / And thence the passage ethe; / As well can proove the piercing levin, / That seldome falles beneath."

Noun
  1. 1
    plural of ethos form-of, plural

    "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."

Etymology

Etymology 1

From the Ancient Greek ἤθη (ḗthē), the contracted nominative plural form of ἦθος (êthos).

Etymology 2

See eath.

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