Word of the Day:
hamartia
What It Means
The tragic flaw of the protagonist in a literary tragedy.
Sin.
A focal malformation consisting of disorganized arrangement of tissue types.
Creon's main hamartia was his excessive pride.
Hamartia in Context
“As a consequence of the primeval peripety, the Adamic fall narrated in Genesis 3, they have all inherited the catastrophic and tragic hamartia, as it were, of original sin, the engrained powerlessness of the soul to will the good, much less to do it, along with the deep disorientation of the soul's...”
Did You Know?
From Ancient Greek ἁμαρτία (hamartía, “tragic failure, sinful nature”), from the verb ἁμαρτάνω (hamartánō, “to miss the mark”).
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