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ἄκλητος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἄκλητος ἄκλητη ἄκλητον

Structure: ἀ (Prefix) + κλητ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. uncalled, unbidden

Examples

  • ἐσ δὲ οὕτω καλὸν χωρίον οὐκ ἂν οἰόμεθα καὶ ἀκλήτουσ αὐτὰσ ἐλθεῖν; (Lucian, De Domo, (no name) 4:7)
  • οὐκ ὀκνήσω δὲ εἰπεῖν ὅτι μοι καὶ βέλτιον φαίνεται μετὰ τὴν κλῆσιν βοηθεῖν αὐτοῖσ ἤπερ ἀκλήτουσ. (Aristides, Aelius, Orationes, 2:7)
  • περιεστήκεσαν δὲ τὸν θρόνον αὐτοῦ πελέκεισ ἔχοντεσ ἄνθρωποι πρὸσ τὸ κολάζειν τοὺσ προσιόντασ ἀκλήτουσ τῷ θρόνῳ. (Flavius Josephus, Antiquitates Judaicae, Book 11 246:2)

Synonyms

  1. uncalled

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Derived

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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