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διάκρουσις

Third declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: διάκρουσις διάκρουσεως

Structure: διακρουσι (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: from diakrou/w

Sense

  1. a putting off

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

  • αἱ γὰρ τοιαῦται φυγαὶ καὶ διακρούσεισ, ἐν ἐλαφραῖσ μέμψεσι τὴν μελέτην ἔχουσαι τοῦ ἀδυσωπήτου, προεθίζουσιν ἡμᾶσ ἐπὶ τὰ μείζονα. (Plutarch, De vitioso pudore, section 5 4:1)
  • ὅταν δὲ δακρύοισ ἐλεγχόμενοι καὶ τρόμοισ καὶ χρόασ μεταβολαῖσ ἀντὶ λύπησ καὶ φόβου δηγμούσ τινασ καὶ συνθροήσεισ λέγωσι καὶ προθυμίασ τὰσ ἐπιθυμίασ ὑποκορίζωνται, σοφιστικὰσ δοκοῦσιν οὐ φιλοσόφουσ διακρούσεισ καὶ ἀποδράσεισ ἐκ τῶν πραγμάτων μηχανᾶσθαι διὰ τῶν ὀνομάτων. (Plutarch, De virtute morali, section 94)

Synonyms

  1. a putting off

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

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