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ἄρνησις

Third declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἄρνησις

Structure: ἀρνησι (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: a)rne/omai

Sense

  1. denial

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

  • ἦσαν οὖν τὸ πρῶτον ἀρνήσεισ οὐκ ἄγαν ἀπηνεῖσ τῆσ γυναικόσ, εἶτα κατὰ μικρὸν ἐδόκει μαλάττεσθαι· (Plutarch, Mulierum virtutes, 2:2)
  • ἦσαν οὖν τὸ πρῶτον ἀρνήσεισ οὐκ ἄγαν ἀπηνεῖσ τῆσ γυναικόσ, εἶτα κατὰ μικρὸν ἐδόκει μαλάσσεσθαι· (Plutarch, Mulierum virtutes, 6:2)
  • κἀκεῖνοσ οὐχ ὁρᾶν ἔφη, πῶσ ἂν αὐτὸν ἐξαιτήσαιτο τοσούτοισ ἐνεχόμενον ἐγκλήμασιν, ἐξ ὧν σαφῶσ ἀποδείκνυται τοῦ βασιλέωσ ἐπίβουλοσ καὶ τῶν παρόντων τῷ μειρακίῳ κακῶν αἴτιοσ γεγονώσ, εἰ μὴ βούλεται τὸ πανοῦργον καὶ τὰσ ἀρνήσεισ ἀφεὶσ προσομολογῆσαι μὲν τὰ κατηγορημένα, συγγνώμην δ’ αἰτήσασθαι παρὰ τἀδελφοῦ καὶ φιλοῦντοσ· (Flavius Josephus, De bello Judaico libri vii, 713:1)

Synonyms

  1. denial

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

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