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δυσσέβεια

First declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: δυσσέβεια

Structure: δυσσεβει (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Etym.: from dussebh/s

Sense

  1. impiety, ungodliness
  2. a charge of impiety

Declension

First 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

  • πανουργίασ δ’ ἔδειξεν ἀνθρώποισ ἔχειν καὶ παντὸσ ἔργου δυσσέβειαν εἰδέναι. (Sophocles, Antigone, episode 3:11)
  • ἐπεί γε δὴ τὴν δυσσέβειαν εὐσεβοῦσ’, ἐκτησάμην. (Sophocles, Antigone, episode19)
  • τοῦτον ἔνιοι διὰ τὴν τῶν Λυκάονοσ παίδων δυσσέβειαν εἶπον γεγενῆσθαι. (Apollodorus, Library and Epitome, book 3, chapter 8 2:3)
  • καλὸν οὖν, ἑταῖροι, δίκαια φρονεῖν καὶ μὴ ταῖσ ἀνθρωπίναισ συμφοραῖσ προσθεῖναι τὴν εἰσ τὸν κτίσαντα ἡμᾶσ δυσσέβειαν. (Flavius Josephus, De bello Judaico libri vii, 453:1)
  • μάλιστα δὲ τὴν σφαγὴν τῶν περὶ τὸ ἱερὸν ἐδείνου τῷ λόγῳ καὶ τὴν δυσσέβειαν, ὡσ ἑορτῆσ τε ἐνεστηκυίασ καὶ ἱερείων ἐν τρόπῳ σφαχθεῖεν ἔνιοι μὲν ξένοι οἱ δὲ ἐγχώριοι, πλησθείη δὲ τὸ ἱερὸν νεκρῶν οὐχ ὑπ’ ἀλλοφύλου, ἀλλὰ τοῦ καὶ μετὰ νομίμων ὀνομάτων τῆσ βασιλείασ ἐφιεμένου τῆσ πράξεωσ, ὅπωσ δυνηθείη πληρῶσαι τῆσ φύσει τυραννίδοσ τὴν πᾶσιν ἀνθρώποισ μεμισημένην ἀδικίαν. (Flavius Josephus, Antiquitates Judaicae, Book 17 283:1)

Synonyms

  1. impiety

  2. a charge of impiety

Related

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

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