Ethe
adj, noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 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."
- 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."
Example
More examples"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
From the Ancient Greek ἤθη (ḗthē), the contracted nominative plural form of ἦθος (êthos).
See eath.
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