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ethos(dictionary)

ethos (iou)



ethos noun. M19.
[Greek ethos nature, disposition.]
The characteristic spirit of a culture, era, community, institution, etc., as manifested in its attitudes, aspirations, customs, etc.; the character of an individual as represented by his or her values and beliefs; the prevalent tone of a literary work in this respect.
M. Sarton The daring sense that anything could be said..was surely one of the keys to the Bloomsbury ethos. R. Fry The general atmospherethe ethos, which the works of art of a period exhale. D. L. Edwards Baptist congregations..providing a..popular alternative to an Anglicanism still aristocratic in its ethos.