Ethel vs Ethea - What's the difference?
ethel | ethea |
, popular at the turn of the 20th century.
* 1855 William Makepeace Thackeray: The Newcomes . Bradbury and Evans 1855. page 95:
* 1979 Mary McMullen: But Nellie Was So Nice . Doubleday 1979. page 23:
*1918 : John Herbert Parsons, Mind and the Nation: a précis of applied psychology , p23
*:From them sprang, all with a sense of dividing and mapping out boundaries, Moira (Destiny) and Nomos (Law), Nemos (Sanctuary) and Nemesis (Avenging Anger or Righteous Indignation), Ethea , the haunts of the country in which one ranges, and so customs, established behaviour, habits.
*1984 : Eva Hauel Cadwallader, Searchlight on Values: Nicolai Hartmann’s Twentieth-century Value Platonism , p93
*:Hartmann means this interpretation of what most would call historical historical relativism to apply also to the contemporaneous diversity of ethea among cultures, sub-cultures, and (evidently) individuals who adopt the viewpoint of one of these.
*1994 : Richard T. Hull, A Quarter Century of Value Inquiry , p180
*:These three valuational attitudes form a triangle of mutually opposing ethea .
*1996 : Charles E. Scott, On the Advantages and Disadvantages of Ethics and Politics , p46
*:The question arises from a limited ethos combined with its universalization, which transgresses its own limits, and its claim to authority over other ethea .
*1997 : Charles Olson et alii, Collected Prose , p358
*:A politics of the order of the Athenian Three has no more person or ethea in it — has only a psyche of halve to logos and their false conjunction supported by an invented episteme, an invented noun instead of a participle…
*2004 : Michael J. Hyde, The Ethos of Rhetoric , pXVI
*:This question echoes the earliest use of ethos that dates back to Homer and Hesiod, influences Isocrates’ theory of rhetoric and moral character, and, as Charles Chamberlain notes, “refers to the range or arena where someone is most truly at home and which underlies all the fine appearances [‘habits’ and ‘customs’: also ethea ] that people adopt”.
*2006 : Chanju Mun, Buddhism And Peace: Theory And Practice , p224
*:The place of this region is called the ethea of animals and refers to the place outside the domain of Greek culture, to the place of the barbarian who resists domestication.
As nouns the difference between ethel and ethea
is that ethel is the letter or ethel can be a kind of tree, perhaps a tamarisk, found in northern africa and in arabia, which has dark, bluish wood while ethea is .ethel
English
Proper noun
(en proper noun)- If it is so false, and base, and hollow, this great world - - - why does Ethel Newcome cling to it? Will you be fairer, dear, with any other name than your own?
- Charmian Lyle had given herself her first name at the age of sixteen, upon encountering it in an English novel. Her baptismal name was Ethel'. When her husband Walter was extremely angry with her, he called her ' Ethel .
- Charmian, she thought, suited her much better. She didn't think she looked, felt, or sounded like Ethel . Nor like her middle name, which she really detested, Edna.