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Ethos   Listen
noun
Ethos  n.  
1.
The character, sentiment, or disposition of a community or people, considered as a natural endowment; the spirit which actuates manners and customs; also, the characteristic tone or genius of an institution or social organization.
2.
(esthetics) The traits in a work of art which express the ideal or typic character character as influenced by the ethos (sense 1) of a people rather than realistic or emotional situations or individual character in a narrow sense; opposed to pathos.





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"Ethos" Quotes from Famous Books



... 705) had said the same thing:[Greek: me nun en ethos pounon en sauto phorei os phes su, kouden allo, tout' orphos echein]—"Don't get this idea fixed in your head, that what you say, and nothing ...
— Unwritten Literature of Hawaii - The Sacred Songs of the Hula • Nathaniel Bright Emerson


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