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ἀνάδυσις

Third declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀνάδυσις

Structure: ἀναδυσι (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: a)nadu/omai

Sense

  1. a drawing back, retreat, a holding back

Declension

Third 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

  • καὶ μέχρι μὲν ἦν τὸ παλαιὸν ὄρυγμα, προυχώρουν δι’ αὐτοῦ, τῆσ στερεᾶσ δὲ γῆσ ὑπαντώσησ ταύτην ὑπενόμευον, ἐλπίδι τοῦ πορρωτέρω δυνήσεσθαι προελθόντεσ ἐν ἀσφαλεῖ ποιησάμενοι τὴν ἀνάδυσιν ἀποσώζεσθαι. (Flavius Josephus, De bello Judaico libri vii, 34:1)

Synonyms

  1. a drawing back

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

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