arete

Example Sentences

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The tattoo I didn’t get was going to be the ancient Greek word “arete,” which means, among other things, excellence.

From New York Times

According to Ríos, at the orders of the defendant, the "arete" was put on an elevated area in front of a small graveyard they had dug.

From Fox News

This funky goop, called gloios and thought to contain the essence of arete — valor, excellence — was often funneled into small vials and sold at gyms for medicinal purposes.

From New York Times

For Aristotle, it required a combination of rationality and arete—a kind of virtue, although that concept has since been polluted by Christian moralizing.

From The New Yorker

The gymnasion was where boys attained manhood in the broadest sense of the term and adult men pursued arete: their full physical, intellectual, emotional, social and moral potential.

From Time