Peripateia definitions and example sentences on Wordnik

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But it is my task to narrate the gradual corruption of Grimworth manners from their primitive simplicity--a melancholy task, if it were not cheered by the prospect of the fine peripateia or downfall by which the progress of the corruption was ultimately checked It was young Mrs. Steene, the veterinary surgeons wife, who first gave way to temptation.

—Brother Jacob

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But it is my task to narrate the gradual corruption of Grimworth manners from their primitive simplicity--a melancholy task, if it were not cheered by the prospect of the fine peripateia or downfall by which the progress of the corruption was ultimately checked It was young Mrs. Steene, the veterinary surgeons wife, who first gave way to temptation. — Brother Jacob
(losing his stake in a professional card game, his daughter becoming a young woman, Ifthikar revealing his disdain for their painfully superficial relationship), it is simple to extend the logic to the peripateia of America's antiquated stake as the supreme superpower. — Obscene Jester
But it is my task to narrate the gradual corruption of Grimworth manners from their primitive simplicity -- a melancholy task, if it were not cheered by the prospect of the fine peripateia or downfall by which the progress of the corruption was ultimately checked. — Brother Jacob
History knows of perhaps no more startling instance of what the Greeks called peripateia, the terrible fall from prideful heights. — Statement on Bahá’u’lláh