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ἀμεταμέλητος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀμεταμέλητος ἀμεταμέλητη ἀμεταμέλητον

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

Etym.: metame/lomai

Sense

  1. not to be repented of
  2. unrepentant

Declension

First/Second declension

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

  • ὁ γὰρ ἀμεταμέλητοσ ἀνίατοσ. (Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, Book 7 90:2)
  • ἀμεταμέλητοσ γὰρ ὡσ εἰπεῖν. (Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, Book 9 46:4)
  • περὶ τὸ συνέχειν, ἃσ παρὰ τῶν προγόνων δόξασ ὑπὲρ τοῦ δαιμονίου παρέλαβον, ἀμεταμέλητοσ ἡ τοιαύτη προαίρεσισ καὶ βεβαία διαμένῃ, τοῖσ δ’ ὑπερορῶσι τῶν πατρίων ἐθισμῶν καὶ μηθενὸσ ποιοῦσι τὸ δαιμόνιον τῶν ἀνθρωπίνων λογισμῶν κύριον μάλιστα μὲν ἀναθέσθαι ταύτην τὴν δόξαν, εἰ δ’ ἀνιάτωσ ἔχουσιν ἔτι μᾶλλον αὐτοῖσ ἀπεχθάνεσθαι καὶ κακοδαιμονεστέροισ εἶναι. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, Books VII-IX, book 8, chapter 56 2:1)
  • ὅτι πᾶσα χάρισ ἀμεταμέλητοσ οὖσα καλὸν ἔχει καρπὸν τὸν παρὰ τὸν τῶν εὐεργετουμένων ἔπαινον· (Diodorus Siculus, Library, fragmenta libri x, chapter 16 7:1)

Synonyms

  1. not to be repented of

  2. unrepentant

Related

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

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