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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

  • ἄπρακτοσ γὰρ ἡ σπουδὴ τοῦ λόγου τῶν ἐλάττονα τῆσ βουλήσεωσ ἐχόντων τὴν δύναμιν. (Demades, On the Twelve Years, 29:2)
  • ὅλωσ γὰρ ἐπινόησόν μοι καὶ τῷ λογισμῷ διατύπωσον ποικιλωτάτην τινὰ ψυχῆσ κρᾶσιν ἐκ ψεύδουσ καὶ δόλων καὶ ἐπιορκιῶν καὶ κακοτεχνιῶν συγκειμένην, ῥᾳδίαν, τολμηράν, παράβολον, φιλόπονον ἐξεργάσασθαι τὰ νοηθέντα, καὶ πιθανὴν καὶ ἀξιόπιστον καὶ ὑκοκριτικὴν τοῦ βελτίονοσ καὶ τῷ ἐναντιωτάτῳ τῆσ βουλήσεωσ ἐοικυῖαν. (Lucian, Alexander, (no name) 4:9)
  • "ἢ δυοῖν χάριν ταῦτα περιφέρουσιν ἀρχή τε γὰρ ἐντυχίασ καὶ παράδειγμα τῆσ βουλήσεωσ αὐτοῖσ γίνεται διὰ τούτων, αἰτηθεῖσι μὲν τὸ προσαγορευθῆναι, δοῦσι δὲ τὸ προυπογράφειν ὅτι δεῖ καὶ αὐτοὺσ μεταδιδόναι τῆσ ὡρ́ασ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 12, book 12, chapter 794)
  • θαυμαστὴ δὲ καὶ τὸ πλῆθοσ ἔσχε μεταβολὴ τῆσ ὁρμῆσ, ἀλλήλουσ παρακαλούντων καὶ προτρεπομένων πρὸσ τὸ ἔργον, οὐκ ἐκ διανομῆσ τινοσ ἢ τάξεωσ, ἀλλ’ ὡσ ἕκαστοσ ἑτοιμότητοσ ἢ βουλήσεωσ εἶχε τῶν χωρίων καταλαμβανομένων. (Plutarch, Camillus, chapter 32 3:1)
  • οὗτοι μὲν οὖν τῆσ ἀλαζονείασ δίκην ἔδωκαν ὕστερον ὑπὸ Ἀντωνίου καὶ τοῦ νέου Καίσαροσ ἀναιρεθέντεσ καὶ μηδὲ τῆσ δόξησ, δι’ ἣν ἀπέθνῃσκον, ἀπολαύσαντεσ ἀπιστίᾳ τῶν ἄλλων, οὐδὲ γὰρ οἱ κολάζοντεσ αὐτοὺσ τῆσ πράξεωσ, ἀλλὰ τῆσ βουλήσεωσ τὴν δίκην ἔλαβον. (Plutarch, Caesar, chapter 67 3:2)

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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