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βούλησις

Third declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: βούλησις

Structure: βουλησι (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: bou/lomai

Sense

  1. a willing, will, intention, purpose
  2. the purpose or meaning

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

  • οὐδὲν γὰρ ἔξω τῆσ μὲν ἀνθρωπείασ, τῆσ δ’ εἰσ τὸ θεῖον νεμέσεωσ τῶν τ’ εἰσ σφᾶσ αὐτοὺσ βουλήσεων δικαιοῦμεν ἢ πράσσομεν. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, , chapter 40 1:5)
  • ἀλλ’ ὅταν, οἷσ ἐκ τῶν νόμων μὴ ἔξεστιν, ἐκ τῶν ὑμετέρων βουλήσεων ἐξῇ, ὅταν ἡ μὲν πονηρία τιμᾶται, τὰ χρηστὰ δ’ ἀπορρίπτηται, ὅταν τὸ δίκαιον καὶ τὸ συμφέρον ἡττᾶται τοῦ φθόνου, τότ’ ἄνω κάτω πάντα χρὴ νομίζειν τετράφθαι. (Demosthenes, Speeches 21-30, 91:4)

Synonyms

  1. a willing

  2. the purpose or meaning

Related

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

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