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- adjective Obsolete form of
ethic . - noun Obsolete form of
ethic .
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Examples
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But The Vanity of Human Wishes is, in the opinion of the best judges, as high an effort of ethick poetry as any language can shew.
Life Of Johnson Boswell, James, 1740-1795 1887
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The sensitive purity of the poet might indeed well be wounded when a poem in which he proposed to himself "to discourse at large" of "the ethick part of Moral Philosophy" [275] could be so misinterpreted.
Among My Books Second Series James Russell Lowell 1855
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But _The Vanity of Human Wishes_ is, in the opinion of the best judges, as high an effort of ethick poetry as any language can shew.
Life of Johnson, Volume 1 1709-1765 James Boswell 1767
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He may be benefitted, — he may be injured, — he may obtain redress; in a word, he has all the claims and rights of humanity, which Tully, Puffendorf, or the best ethick writers allow to arise out of that state and relation.
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He may be benefitted, — he may be injured, — he may obtain redress; in a word, he has all the claims and rights of humanity, which Tully, Puffendorf, or the best ethick writers allow to arise out of that state and relation.
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