ethe

1. pluralplural of ethos

   […] it makes sense to say that these speeches are representations of their ethe.

   2003, Patchen Markell, Bound by Recognition, page 76

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   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.

   1892, Bernhard Bosanquet, A History of Aesthetic, page 72

   The relation between social groups and their ethe is rational; they vary in fixed ratios.

   1942, Journal of Legal and Political Sociology, International Universities Press, page 85

comparative more ethe · superlative most ethe

1. obsoleteeasy

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

   1579, Edmund Spenser, “The Shepheardes Calender”, in The Poetical Works of Edmund Spenser, Volume 4, Charles C. Little and James Brown, published 1839, page 330