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Hamartia

noun
1.
The character flaw or error of a tragic hero that leads to his downfall.  Synonym: tragic flaw.






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"Hamartia" Quotes from Famous Books



... the literal sense) can be understood by persons ignorant of Greek. Who could understand the sentence in the Psalm [Ps. 50.4 (51.3)] Et peccatum meum contra me est semper,[32] unless he has read the Greek? This runs as follows: [Greek: kai he hamartia mou enopion mou esti diapantos]. At this point some theologian will spin a long story of how the flesh is perpetually in conflict with the spirit, having been misled by the double meaning of the preposition, that is, contra, when ...
— Erasmus and the Age of Reformation • Johan Huizinga



Words linked to "Hamartia" :   tragic flaw, flaw



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