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noun

Hellenism n.

A phrase or form of speech in accordance with genius and construction or idioms of the Greek language; a Grecism.

The type of character of the ancient Greeks, who aimed at culture, grace, and amenity, as the chief elements in human well-being and perfection.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Hellenism" Quotes from Famous Books

... of all noble living and of the wisdom of all spiritual things will he be to us ever, seeing that it was he who by the magic of his presence and the music of his lips taught us at Oxford that enthusiasm for beauty which is the secret of Hellenism, and that desire for creation which is the secret of life, and filled some of us, at least, with the lofty and passionate ambition to go forth into far and fair lands with some message for the nations and some mission for the world, ...

— Miscellanies • Oscar Wilde

... geographically, occupies a position intermediate between Hellenism and Hinduism, agrees with the latter in recognizing the essential evil of the cosmos; but differs from both in its intensely anthropomorphic personification of the two antagonistic principles, to the one of which it ascribes all the ...

— Evolution and Ethics and Other Essays • Thomas H. Huxley

Words linked to "Hellenism" : Hellenistic