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Hellenism
  1. Any of the characteristics of ancient Greek culture, civilization, principles and ideals, including humanism, reason, the pursuit of knowledge and the arts, moderation and civic responsibility.
  2. The culture and civilization of the Hellenistic period.
  3. The admiration for and adoption of ancient Greek culture, ideas and civilization.
  4. The national character or culture of Greece.
  5. The belief in and worship of the Greek gods.
  6. A Greek idiom or turn of phrase.
  7. Examples:
    1. “At nineteenth-century Oxford, as is well known, liberal university reformers mobilized under the banner of a secular Hellenism.”
      “The possibility of building such a world was precisely what Hellenism denied, and precisely what we affirm when we take God seriously.”
      “They had a shared sense of Hellenism and a common religion and language and often aligned themselves with native Greek concerns.”
Hellenisation
  1. (British spelling) The adoption of Greek manners and culture
  2. (British spelling) The act of causing a culture to become Greek
  3. (British spelling) The act of Hellenizing, making something Greek or Hellenistic in form or character, (cf. Latinize) such as by coining a word with Greek roots to express a concept that otherwise might be expressed in modern vernacular
Hellenist
  1. A specialist in the study of Greek language, literature, culture, or history, or an admirer of the Greek culture and civilization.
  2. A person who adopted the Greek customs, language and culture during the Hellenistic period, especially a Hellenized Jew.
  3. Examples:
    1. “First, in the eyes of the Hellenist, it appears erroneous from beginning to end.”
      “Instead of this, as far as I remember, that abject Hellenist says nothing at all.”
      “Aided and abetted by philosopher and Hellenist Georges Leroux, Martin gets inside the head of Homer and the heroes of early Western literature.”
Helleniser
  1. Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of Hellenizer.
Hellenizer
  1. (US) One who Hellenizes; a spreader of Greek culture or ideas.
Hellenization
  1. (Canada) Alternative spelling of Hellenisation
Hellenizations
  1. plural of Hellenization
Hellenisations
  1. plural of Hellenisation
Hellenisers
  1. plural of Helleniser
Hellenizers
  1. plural of Hellenizer
  2. Examples:
    1. “When the traditionalists prevailed, and the king was forced to back down, the Hellenizers were systematically hunted down.”
Hellenisms
  1. plural of Hellenism
Hellenists
  1. plural of Hellenist
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