Meanings
- obsoleterareuncountableapplause
Euge! Heinrichi. O, the sublime bathos of thy prosaism — the muddy eddy of thy logic! Thou art the only man to understand a poet!
1821, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Notes on Heinrichs1 more example
No such good news to heaven as this; not only approbation, but joy in heaven over one such convert prodigal: the music that Pythagoras talks of in the orbs, was that of the minstrels which our Saviour mentions at the return of that prodigal, to solemnize the euge's, the passionate welcomes of heaven poured out on penitents.
a. 1606, Henry Hammond, God is the God of Bethel
Origin
- Ancient Greekεὖγε
- Latineuge
- Englisheuge
From Latin euge, from Ancient Greek εὖγε (eûge).
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euge. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/euge
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