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hec·tor (hek′tər)
noun
Etymology: after Hector: in early pop. drama he was portrayed as a bully
transitive verb, intransitive verb
Hec·tor (hek′tər)
noun
- a masculine name
- in Homer's Iliad, the greatest Trojan hero, killed by Achilles to avenge the death of Patroclus: he is Priam's oldest son
Etymology: L < Gr Hektōr, lit., holding fast < echein, to hold, have: for IE base see school
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Object
- tone: And I have had enough of your hectoring, insulting tone.
Modifying Another Word
- never: Tho her writing is never hectoring or overtly ideological, what she found left her deeply alarmed.
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Quid confert animae pugna Hectoris, vel disputatio Platonis, aut carmina Maronis, vel neniae Nasonis? Of what benefit to the soul are the struggles of Hector, the disputations of Plato, the songs of Virgil, or the dirges of Ovid?
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