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Charites

[ kar-i-teez ]

plural noun

, singular Cha·ris [key, -ris].
  1. the ancient Greek name for the Graces.


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And they were not alone to watch for her coming, for the three Charites (Graces, or Gratiæ) were also present.

How a young man came and declared the miserable death of Lepolemus and his wife Charites.

Then immediately the friends of miserable Charites did bury her body within the same Sepulchre.

Then he points out Nature's harmonies and changes of colour, and warns Charites to avoid the storms of the passions.

Charites describes his conversion to the love of Nature by his friend Eukrates.

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