OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 56446

storge

/ˈstɔːɡi/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
storge
Natural affection or love, especially of parents for their children.
I saw a Jewish lady, only yesterday, with a child at her knee, and from whose face towards the child there shone a sweetness so angelical, that it seemed to form a sort of glory ro…
The Greeks called this love storge (two syllables and the g is "hard"). I shall here call it simply Affection. My Greek Lexicon defines storge as "affection, especially of parents…
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