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Ethos vs Motto - What's the difference?

ethos | motto |

As nouns the difference between ethos and motto

is that ethos is the character or fundamental values of a person, people, culture, or movement while motto is a sentence, phrase, or word, forming part of an heraldic achievement.

ethos

English

(wikipedia ethos)

Noun

(en-noun)
  • The character or fundamental values of a person, people, culture, or movement.
  • (rhetoric) A form of rhetoric in which the writer or speaker invokes their authority, competence or expertise in an attempt to persuade others that their view is correct.

    • Related terms

    * etheic * ethics * ethogram * ethography * ethoi (hypercorrect) * ethologic * ethological * ethologist * ethology * * ethopoetic * ethosed * ethoses (non-standard)

    See also

    * logos * pathos

    Anagrams

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    motto

    English

    (Webster 1913)

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • (heraldry) A sentence, phrase, or word, forming part of an heraldic achievement.
  • A sentence, phrase, or word, prefixed to an essay, discourse, chapter, canto, or the like, suggestive of its subject matter; a short, suggestive expression of a guiding principle; a maxim.
  • * (Joseph Addison) (1672-1719)
    • It was the motto of a bishop eminent for his piety and good works, ... Serve God, and be cheerful.
  • *{{quote-book, year=1922, author=(Ben Travers), title=(A Cuckoo in the Nest)
    • , chapter=1 citation , passage=“[…] the awfully hearty sort of Christmas cards that people do send to other people that they don't know at all well. You know. The kind that have mottoes like
      Here's rattling good luck and roaring good cheer, / With lashings of food and great hogsheads of beer. […]”}}

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