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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
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Examples
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How beautiful and wise is the Greek word "ananke."
Without Dogma Henryk Sienkiewicz 1881
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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) 2010
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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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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) The Huffington Post News Team 2010
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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) 2010
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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) The Huffington Post News Team 2010
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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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13th moon of Jupiter
October 7, 2008