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ἀνίερος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀνίερος ἀνίερᾱ ἀνίερον

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

Sense

  1. unholy, unhallowed, unhallowed because of
  2. unconsecrated

Examples

  • τούτῳ χρῆσθαι μετ’ εὐλαβείασ τὸν ἄνδρα καὶ τὴν γυναῖκα, τῶν ἀνιέρων καὶ παρανόμων πρὸσ ἑτέρουσ ἁγνεύοντασ ὁμιλιῶν, καὶ μὴ σπείροντασ ἐξ ὧν οὐδὲν αὐτοῖσ φύεσθαι θέλουσιν ἀλλὰ κἂν γένηται καρπὸσ αἰσχύνονται καὶ ἀποκρύπτουσι. (Plutarch, Conjugalia Praecepta, chapter, section 42 3:1)

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

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