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εἰλικρινής

Third declension Adjective; 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: εἰλικρινής εἰλικρινές

Structure: εἰλικρινη (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: The origin of ei)li- is uncertain.

Sense

  1. unmixed, without alloy, pure, pure, sheer
  2. without mixture, of itself, simply, absolutely

Examples

  • ἐν ἅπασι τέταρτον ἐνόν, τοῦτο ἐν μὲν τοῖσ παρ’ ἡμῖν ψυχήν τε παρέχον καὶ σωμασκίαν ἐμποιοῦν καὶ πταίσαντοσ σώματοσ ἰατρικὴν καὶ ἐν ἄλλοισ ἄλλα συντιθὲν καὶ ἀκούμενον πᾶσαν καὶ παντοίαν σοφίαν ἐπικαλεῖσθαι, τῶν δ’ αὐτῶν τούτων ὄντων ἐν ὅλῳ τε οὐρανῷ καὶ κατὰ μεγάλα μέρη, καὶ προσέτι καλῶν καὶ εἰλικρινῶν, ἐν τούτοισ δ’ οὐκ ἄρα μεμηχανῆσθαι τὴν τῶν καλλίστων καὶ τιμιωτάτων φύσιν. (Plato, Parmenides, Philebus, Symposium, Phaedrus, 117:1)

Synonyms

  1. unmixed

  2. without mixture

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

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