caractère

le caractère (FR N-M) (16th c.) engraved or written sign, an element of writing; (17th c.) distinguishing trait; element that permits recognition; personal style, originality; (1665) the ensemble of habitual ways of feeling and reacting that identify an indivdual; courage, determination, energy, firmness, tenacity, willpower; the morals of a person or group, and their description in a literary work. First appears in French in the 13th century, from Latin character, Greek kharacter (engraved…