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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

  • λυπράν γε τὴν ἄρνησιν· (Euripides, episode, iambic20)
  • τὴν μὲν ἄρνησιν οὐδαμῶσ ἐμαυτῷ προσήκουσαν εἶναι νομίζω, τὸ δ’ ἔργον εὔχομαι καὶ τῆσ σῆσ ἄξιον σπουδῆσ καὶ τῆσ ἐμῆσ προθυμίασ γενέσθαι· (Plutarch, Praecepta gerendae reipublicae, chapter, section 1 5:1)
  • ὡσ δ’ οὐκ ἐτόλμησεν αὐτῶν οὐδέτεροσ πρὸσ ἄρνησιν ἀναιδῆ τραπέσθαι, ἀλλὰ κατεψηφικότεσ ἑαυτῶν ἔκλαιον ἀμφότεροι, ὀλίγον δ’ ἐπισχὼν χρόνον ἀνίσταται καὶ σιωπὴν προκηρύξασ ἐκδεχομένων ἁπάντων, τί τέλοσ ἐξοίσει, θάνατον ἔφη καταδικάζειν τῶν τέκνων· (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, Books IV-VI, book 5, chapter 8 4:1)
  • καὶ μετὰ τοῦτ’ ἀπολογεῖσθαι συγχωρήσαντεσ, ἐάν τινεσ ἀμφισβητῶσι πρὸσ τὴν μήνυσιν, ἐπειδὴ πρὸσ ἄρνησιν οὐδεὶσ ἐπεχείρησε τραπέσθαι, μεταστάντεσ ἐκ τῆσ ἀγορᾶσ εἰσ τὸ βουλευτήριον γνώμασ ὑπὲρ αὐτῶν διηρώτησαν τοὺσ συνέδρουσ, καὶ γραψάμενοι τὰ δόξαντα αὐτοῖσ ἧκον αὖθισ ἐπὶ τὴν ἐκκλησίαν καὶ τὸ προβούλευμα ἀνέγνωσαν. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, Books IV-VI, book 5, chapter 57 5:1)
  • ἐν γὰρ λήξεσιν δικῶν τοὺσ μετὰ νοῦ τιθεμένουσ νόμουσ ἐξαιρεῖν χρὴ τοὺσ ὁρ́κουσ τῶν ἀντιδικούντων ἑκατέρων, καὶ τὸν λαγχάνοντά τῴ τινα δίκην τὰ μὲν ἐγκλήματα γράφειν, ὁρ́κον δὲ μὴ ἐπομνύναι, καὶ τὸν φεύγοντα κατὰ ταὐτὰ τὴν ἄρνησιν γράψαντα παραδοῦναι τοῖσ ἄρχουσιν ἀνώμοτον. (Plato, Laws, book 12 50:2)

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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