Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Tragic flaw.
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- noun The
tragic flaw of theprotagonist in aliterary tragedy . - noun Christian theology :
sin
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- noun the character flaw or error of a tragic hero that leads to his downfall
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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It was for Alexander a tragic flaw, or hamartia, a Greek word meaning to miss the mark when shooting an arrow Christians would later use the same word to mean “sin”.
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It was for Alexander a tragic flaw, or hamartia, a Greek word meaning to miss the mark when shooting an arrow Christians would later use the same word to mean “sin”.
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It was for Alexander a tragic flaw, or hamartia, a Greek word meaning to miss the mark when shooting an arrow Christians would later use the same word to mean “sin”.
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Your hamartia is your: a. tragic flaw that leads to your downfall.
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Most common, however, is "hamartia," a term from archery meaning to "miss the mark" particularly by falling short.
"Should I stay with my girlfriend after she gave up sex for religion?"
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Yet in every Greek tragedy the catalyst for the protagonist’s downfall is hamartia, from the Greek hamartanein, a term that describes an archer missing the target.
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Yet in every Greek tragedy the catalyst for the protagonist’s downfall is hamartia, from the Greek hamartanein, a term that describes an archer missing the target.
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Yet in every Greek tragedy the catalyst for the protagonist’s downfall is hamartia, from the Greek hamartanein, a term that describes an archer missing the target.
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In essence, hamartia means “mistake,” pure and simple—although the mistake is never pure and rarely simple.
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In essence, hamartia means “mistake,” pure and simple—although the mistake is never pure and rarely simple.
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