citta
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of citta
From Sanskrit
Example Sentences
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Condemned in absentia to death by burning, Dante for the last 20 years of his life wandered in exile from the "bella citta" he loved.
From Time Magazine Archive
They stand to the more purist kinds of geometrical abstraction as the plan of a hill town does to a Renaissance citta ideale.
From Time Magazine Archive
She sang as she did so, even as her foremothers had sung seven hundred years back— Poggibonizzi, fatti in la, Che Monteriano si fa citta!
From Where Angels Fear to Tread by Forster, E. M. (Edward Morgan)
At this stage dawns the true knowledge, when the buddhi becomes as pure as the puru@sa, and after that the citta not being able to bind the puru@sa any longer returns back to prak@rti.
From A History of Indian Philosophy, Volume 1 by Dasgupta, Surendranath
For example, after the strophe, "Sei la citta del pianto, e questa reggia quella del duol," comes a slight glimmering of hope, and then, "Madman that I am! whither does my grief lead me?"
From The Letters of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart — Volume 01 by Nohl, Ludwig
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