Definitions
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun any of the three Greek goddesses of fate or destiny; identified with the Roman Parcae and similar to the Norse Norns
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Examples
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My costume is okay, I suppose - I'm Clotho of the Moirai - the Greek Fates.
Archive 2005-10-01 Sara M 2005
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My costume is okay, I suppose - I'm Clotho of the Moirai - the Greek Fates.
Halloween? Sara M 2005
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Oh! oh! venerable Moirai, what fresh attack is this?
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But the mighty Moirai, whose word even Zeus himself may not turn aside, had fixed the doom of Meleagros.
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Then the soul of the brave Herakles was stirred within him, and he sware that the Moirai should not win the victory.
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But the Moirai still remembered the doom of the burning brand, and the unpitying Erinys had not forgotten the curse of Althaia, and they moved the men of Kalydon to withhold the prize of his good deeds from the chieftain, Meleagros.
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Yet deeper and more bitter was the sorrow of Althaia, for the love of a mother came back to her heart when the Moirai had accomplished the doom of her child.
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Slavonic peoples, the three [Greek: _Moirai_] of Modern Greece, the three Phatite of Albania, the three white ladies, three virgins, three
The Child and Childhood in Folk-Thought Studies of the Activities and Influences of the Child Among Primitive Peoples, Their Analogues and Survivals in the Civilization of To-Day Alexander F. Chamberlain
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The harps of the minstrels hung silent on the wall, and men spake in whispering voices, for the awful Moirai were at hand to bear Alkestis to the shadowy kingdom.
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Suddenly, as she yet spake, the Moirai stood before her.
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