单词 | ananke |
释义 | ananken. Esp. among the ancient Greeks: fate personified as an inescapable force to which even the gods are subject; inevitability, necessity. ΘΚΠ the mind > will > necessity > fate or destiny as determining events > [noun] weirdc888 whatec1200 fortunea1300 cuta1340 destinyc1374 fatec1374 destin1590 jade1594 fatalitya1631 ananke1860 1860 ‘G. F. Preston’ Ballads & Metrical Sketches 166 A hapless and a helpless human soul, Ananke driveth where it listeth not, Beneath whose iron distaff all must pass,—That uncontrolled necessity of Zeus. 1885 Spectator 30 May 705/2 That theme is the predestined fate, the ananké of human existence. 1920 E. Pound Hugh Selwyn Mauberley 23 All passes, anangke prevails. 2017 R. Kerr Multi-level Governance vi. 142 Through the ananke of bodies, Hobbes effects the founding of a single sovereignty and relations between sovereignties in a single stroke. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2021; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1860 |
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