"ethe" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1892, Bernhard Bosanquet, A History of Aesthetic, page 72:",
          "text": "And it is a further proof of our view, that beginners in poetry attain completeness in expression and ethe [plural of ethos], before they are capable of composing the march of incidents; almost all the earliest poets are instances of this.",
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          "text": "The relation between social groups and their ethe is rational; they vary in fixed ratios.",
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          "text": "[…] it makes sense to say that these speeches are representations of their ethe.",
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          "text": "Hereto, the hilles bene nigher heaven, / And thence the passage ethe; / As well can proove the piercing levin, / That seldome falles beneath.",
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