ethos
IPA: ˈiθɑs
noun
- The character or fundamental values of a person, people, culture, or movement.
- (rhetoric) A form of rhetoric in which the writer or speaker invokes their authority, competence or expertise in an attempt to persuade others that their view is correct.
- (art) The traits in a work of art which express the ideal or typic character, as influenced by the ethos (character or fundamental values) of a people, rather than emotional situations or individual character traits in a narrow sense; opposed to pathos.
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Examples of "ethos" in Sentences
- I was thinking the ethos and aims of the school.
- Our relationship with the ethos is always communicative.
- The ethos of the web is to link and not to replicate data.
- He sought to revive the military ethos of the Roman empire.
- Before the Megalith was the powerful creature known as the Ethos.
- In it he sought to revive the military ethos of the Roman empire.
- It's the law of the jungle rather than the ethos of the community.
- Both cling to an ethos riddled with perplexities and contradictions.
- This was in accordance with the customs of the medieval feuding ethos.
- It sought to explain the ethos of the order and its mission to modernise.
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