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διακάθαρσις

Third declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: διακάθαρσις διακάθαρσεως

Structure: διακαθαρσι (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: from diakaqai/rw

Sense

  1. a thorough cleansing

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

  • πολλῶν οὐσῶν τῶν διακαθάρσεων αἱ μὲν ῥᾴουσ εἰσίν, αἱ δὲ χαλεπώτεραι, καὶ τὰσ μὲν τύραννοσ μὲν ὢν καὶ νομοθέτησ ὁ αὐτόσ, ὅσαι χαλεπαί τ’ εἰσὶν καὶ ἄρισται, δύναιτ’ ἂν καθῆραι, νομοθέτησ δὲ ἄνευ τυραννίδοσ καθιστὰσ πολιτείαν καινὴν καὶ νόμουσ, εἰ καὶ τὸν πρᾳότατον τῶν καθαρμῶν καθήρειεν, ἀγαπώντωσ ἂν καὶ τὸ τοιοῦτον δράσειεν. (Plato, Laws, book 5 63:2)

Synonyms

  1. a thorough cleansing

Similar forms

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

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