Definitions
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- n. Necessity beyond all supplications or sway. Conceived as the ultimate dictator of all fate and circumstances, to which even the gods must ultimately pay homage and deference.
Etymologies
Examples
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How beautiful and wise is the Greek word "ananke."
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You go into the world in a time of enormous challenges and consequential choices, which the Greeks summed up in the word ananke.
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As I have shared with other graduates, in classical Greek ananke means destiny.
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Throughout our history, America has confronted and surmounted each moment of ananke.
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As I have shared with other graduates, in classical Greek, ananke means destiny.
Nancy Pelosi Touts Health Care Reform At Mills College (FULL TEXT)
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You go into the world in a time of enormous challenges and consequential choices, which the Greeks summed up in the word: ananke.
Nancy Pelosi Touts Health Care Reform At Mills College (FULL TEXT)
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* 'Alla men aphairoumenou mekous kai platous kai bathous, ouden horomen hupoleipomenon plen e& 176; ti esti to horizomenon hupo touton, hoste ten hulen ananke phainesthai monen ousian houto skopoumenois.
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'Alla men aphairoumenou mekous kai platous kai bathous, ouden horomen hupoleipomenon plen e& 176; ti esti to horizomenon hupo touton, hoste ten hulen ananke phainesthai monen ousian houto skopoumenois.
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Now Reineke would not have hurt a creature, not even Scharfenebbe, the crow's wife, when she came to peck his eyes out, if he had not been hungry; and that gastros ananke, that craving of the stomach, makes a difference quite infinite.
Froude's Essays in Literature and History With Introduction by Hilaire Belloc
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With these three fatalities which envelop man in mingled the interior fatality, that supreme ananke, the human heart.
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