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ἀποδειλίασις

Third declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀποδειλίασις ἀποδειλιασεως

Structure: ἀποδειλιασι (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: from a)podeilia/w

Sense

  1. great cowardice

Examples

  • τῶν δὲ φίλων φαμένων ὡσ αὐτὸσ εἰή αἴτιοσ, τρέσασ τὸ τοῦ καλοῦ φίλημα, τοῦ μὴ ἐντὸσ φιλήματοσ ἐλθεῖν, καὶ εἰ μὴ ἀποδειλιάσει, ἥξειν ἐκεῖνον· (Plutarch, Apophthegmata Laconica, , section 154)
  • ἀποδειλιάσει, ὥσπερ οἱ ἐν τοῖσ ἄλλοισ ἀποδειλιῶντεσ. (Plato, Republic, book 6 399:1)

Synonyms

  1. great cowardice

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

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