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ἀμελετησία

First declension Noun; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀμελετησία

Etym.: From a)mele/thtos

Sense

  1. want of practice

Examples

  • τοῦτο γὰρ τῶν μαθόντων λήθην μὲν ἐν ψυχαῖσ παρέξει μνήμησ ἀμελετησίᾳ, ἅτε διὰ πίστιν γραφῆσ ἔξωθεν ὑπ’ ἀλλοτρίων τύπων, οὐκ ἔνδοθεν αὐτοὺσ ὑφ’ αὑτῶν ἀναμιμνῃσκομένουσ· (Plato, Parmenides, Philebus, Symposium, Phaedrus, 314:1)

Synonyms

  1. want of practice

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

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