kalon

[ kuh-lon ]

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noun

(especially in ancient Greek philosophy) the ideal of beauty, especially moral goodness or nobility:
He had done what was morally right and necessary, had taken possession of kalon, and thus fulfilled his destiny as a man.
Achilles decides that his physical life is less important than the demands of kalon.

Origin of kalon¹

First recorded in 1745–50; from Greek kalón, neuter of kalós, “beautiful, fair”; calli- ( def )

The fruit characters of To-Kalon are so similar to those of Catawba that it was hardly worthy of introduction.

Only a few atoms of kalon and meta-kalon have been found in the air of a fair-sized room.

He agreed that the tragedy had inspired these sentiments in him, and that there was the to kalon, beauty.

He admitted that the tragedy had inspired him with these two sentiments, and that it was the To Kalon, the beautiful.

The man who called himself Kalon was a magnificent creature, worthy, in a physical sense, to be the pontiff of Apollo.

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