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ἀλλοτριοπραγμοσύνη

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀλλοτριοπραγμοσύνη

Structure: ἀλλοτριοπραγμοσυν (Stem) + η (Ending)

Etym.: pra=gma

Sense

  1. a meddling with other people's business

Examples

  • οὐκοῦν στάσιν τινὰ αὖ τριῶν ὄντων τούτων δεῖ αὐτὴν εἶναι καὶ πολυπραγμοσύνην καὶ ἀλλοτριοπραγμοσύνην καὶ ἐπανάστασιν μέρουσ τινὸσ τῷ ὅλῳ τῆσ ψυχῆσ, ἵν’ ἄρχῃ ἐν αὐτῇ οὐ προσῆκον, ἀλλὰ τοιούτου ὄντοσ φύσει οἱού πρέπειν αὐτῷ δουλεύειν, τῷ δ’ οὐ δουλεύειν ἀρχικοῦ γένουσ ὄντι; (Plato, Republic, book 4 573:1)

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

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