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Eumenides
[ yoo-men-i-deez ]
noun
- (used with a plural verb) Classical Mythology. a euphemistic name for the Furies, meaning “the Kindly Ones.”
- (italics) (used with a singular verb) a tragedy (485 b.c.) by Aeschylus.
Eumenides
/ juːˈmɛnɪˌdiːz /
plural noun
- another name for the Furies, used by the Greeks as a euphemism
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Word History and Origins
Origin of Eumenides1
from Greek, literally: the benevolent ones, from eumenēs benevolent, from eu- + menos spirit
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Example Sentences
There is a savage ritual of purification from blood shed by a homicide (compare Eumenides, line 273).
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Quin dir Eumenides monstraque Tartari His longe duce te finibus exulant.
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The witches are not, it is true, divine Eumenides, and are not intended to be; they are ignoble and vulgar instruments of hell.
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Since the "Eumenides" of Æschylus nothing so grand and terrible has ever been written.
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When they came to Orestes and the Eumenides, Colin held out the drawing at arm's length for a moment lovingly.
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