Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A satellite of Jupiter.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Other thinkers sought explana - tions of the workings of the universe by personifying the element of causality which brought about events necessarily and unavoidably; that element of necessary sequence of cause and effect was symbolized in Fate, known as Ananke or Heimarmene.
FORTUNE, FATE, AND CHANCE VINCENZO CIOFFARI 1968
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But just like no one smells like Ben (amber and saffron and light), no one smells like Ananke.
Valentines, part the first mllelaurel 2009
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Is this meant to be an evocation of Ananke as Rockette?
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Throughout our history, America has confronted and surmounted each moment of 'Ananke.'
Nancy Pelosi Touts Health Care Reform At Mills College (FULL TEXT) 2010
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Throughout our history, America has confronted and surmounted each moment of 'Ananke.'
Nancy Pelosi Touts Health Care Reform At Mills College (FULL TEXT) The Huffington Post News Team 2010
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We hadn't planned to put down on any major moon - though we had hoped to rendezvous with Ananke and Carme.
2061 Odyssey Three Clarke, Arthur C. 1987
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The jagged rocks of the four tiny outer moons, Sinope, Pasiphae, Carme, and Ananke, flickered briefly across his field of consciousness; then came Elara, Lysithea, Himalia, and Leda at half their distance from Jupiter.
2010 Odyssey Two Clarke, Arthur C. 1982
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It had long since passed the gravitational no-man's-land where the four tiny outer moons -- Sinope, Pasiphae, Ananke, and Carme -- wobbled along their retrograde and wildly eccentric orbits.
2010 Odyssey Two Clarke, Arthur C. 1982
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His soul tried to escape the oppression of this cosmic mechanism, and to leave the slavery of {182} Ananke.
The Oriental Religions in Roman Paganism Franz Cumont
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As Ananke, Tyche assumes quite another character, and becomes the embodiment of those immutable laws of nature, by which certain causes produce certain inevitable results.
Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome E.M. Berens
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