Moira

Word MOIRA
Character 5
Hyphenation ‖Moi ra
Pronunciations N/A

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The Greek word moira μοῖρα literally means a part or portion, and by extension one's portion in life or destiny. ❋ David McDuff (2009)

Again, in the ancient Greek mythology, "moira" or fate of man never went unmet when he acted out of caprice or pride. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Yes | No | Report from paulhar69 wrote 9 weeks 6 hours ago in the local paper it stated that the moira man was throwing wood in a bucket behind his house alone. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The feeling that "this should not have happened", that it is against the divine/social/familial/natural order, sits at the heart of tragedy, in the concepts of miasma, moira & pathos, or hubris, ate & nemesis. ❋ Hal Duncan (2006)

On screen is dr. moira mctaggart and a braindead person. ❋ Unknown (2006)

He has indeed transferred to this body somehow and communicates with moira. ❋ Unknown (2006)

May 27, 2008 at 8:09 am moira-come bak & play wen you can! ❋ Unknown (2008)

I find the concepts of moira and wyrd really useful as they apply to characters. ❋ Susan Palwick (2007)

Waxing mythical, he talks of the 'odyssean' nature of economy, suggesting that 'Oikonomeia would always follow the path of Ulysses' -- Odysseus and Ulysses being two names for the same Homeric hero whose destiny or moira dictated that he embark on a twenty-year-long adventure that would end with his return to his own palace. ❋ Enowning (2007)

This second part, nomos, itself breaks down into the laws of distribution (nemein) and of partition (moira, which also means 'lot' or 'destiny'). ❋ Enowning (2007)

By Niki, at 5/17/2005 05:20:00 PM moira - thank you! ❋ Niki (2005)

Uncle moira on Zelda Orirai Ullriaaa no no Ulrira - being an unvle on Zelda. ❋ Evolver (2004)

Zeus, if he insisted, could change the moira of Sarpedon by postponing his appointed day of death; so also for the death of Hector at Iliad 22.181. ❋ CHARLES H. KAHN (1968)

This organizing principle is also called reason (logos), providence (pronoia), and destiny (moira); all of these are predicates of Nature or God, who is conceived as the world-soul, a perfect being, which is immanent in everything and which directs events to achieve worthy ends. ❋ ANTHONY A. LONG (1968)

The episode reveals that the Greeks believed that there was a proper order (moira) of things that maintained the balance of forces in the universe. ❋ S. G. F. BRANDO (1968)

When he was in his grave, I said to myself, 'Surely the time of my moira is coming. ❋ Renault, Mary, 1905-1983 (1958)

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