ethos
/ˈiθɑs/ noun C2- The character or fundamental values of a person, people, culture, or movement.
- 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.
- 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.
Plural ethe
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This necessary shift in perspective requires a conscious, deliberate rejection of the maximalist ethos that so thoroughly permeates our contemporary consumer culture.
Conversely, the Broad accent was intrinsically linked to rural agricultural life and the working class, representing a rugged egalitarian ethos.
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