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ἀτίμωσις

Third declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀτίμωσις

Structure: ἀτιμωσι (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Sense

  1. a dishonouring, dishonour done to

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

  • πατρὸσ δ’ ἀτίμωσιν ἆρα τείσει ἕκατι μὲν δαιμόνων, ἕκατι δ’ ἀμᾶν χερῶν; (Aeschylus, Libation Bearers, choral, strophe 92)
  • φάμενοι καλῶσ ἔχειν, εἰ μὴ πρότερον κατ’ αὐτὸν ἑώρα τὸ ὠφελοῦν ἀλλὰ νῦν γοῦν ἐπιστροφὴν ποιεῖσθαι τοῦ γεγονότοσ πρὶν ἢ τὴν ἁμαρτίαν ἐκείνῳ τε καὶ πᾶσι τοῖσ ἄλλοισ γενέσθαι εἰσ ὄλεθρον ἀνακειμένην, τόν τε γάμον τῆσ ἀνθρώπου λέγοντεσ οὐ μετ’ αὐτῶν οὐδ’ αὐτοῖσ εἰωθότων τεθεῖσθαι νόμων καὶ τὴν θρησκείαν ἣν ἐπιτηδεύοι ἡ γυνὴ ἐπ’ ἀτιμώσει θεοῦ τοῦ αὐτοῖσ σεβασμίου πράσσεσθαι. (Flavius Josephus, Antiquitates Judaicae, Book 18 411:1)
  • ὧν ἀτίμωσισ ἦν καὶ μετανάστασισ κτεινομένων τε καὶ τὰ χρήματα συλωμένων διὰ τὸ καὶ τὰσ σφαγὰσ ὡσ τὸ πολὺ ἐπ’ ἀφαιρέσει τῶν χρημάτων αὐτοῖσ συντυγχάνειν. (Flavius Josephus, Antiquitates Judaicae, Book 19 5:2)

Synonyms

  1. a dishonouring

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

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