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ἀποθεώρησις?

Third declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration: apotheōrēsis

Principal Part: ἀποθεώρησις

Structure: ἀποθεωρησι (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Sense

  1. serious contemplation

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

  • ταῦτα μὲν οὖν ἔχει τινὰ καὶ τοῦ βίου ἀποθεώρησιν. (Plutarch, Pelopidas, chapter 25 7:3)
  • ἐκλεξάμενος δὲ τῆς μετεώρου χώρας τόπον ἐστραμμένον ἐπὶ τὴν ἔρημον καὶ πρὸς τὴν ἀποθεώρησιν πανταχόθεν εὐφυῆ, σημεῖα θέμενος περιέλαβεν ὡς ἂν ἑβδομήκοντα σταδίων περιφέρειαν. (Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca Historica, Books XVIII-XX, book 19, chapter 38 3:2)

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

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