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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

  • ἡ δὲ τοῦ νοητοῦ καὶ εἰλικρινοῦσ καὶ ἁπλοῦ νόησισ ὥσπερ ἀστραπὴ διαλάμψασα τῆσ ψυχῆσ ἅπαξ ποτὲ θιγεῖν καὶ προσιδεῖν παρέσχε. (Plutarch, De Iside et Osiride, section 77 2:5)
  • οὐδ’ εἰ ἄγευστοι οὗτοι ὄντεσ ἡδονῆσ εἰλικρινοῦσ καὶ ἐλευθερίου ἐπὶ τὰσ σωματικὰσ καταφεύγουσιν, διὰ τοῦτο ταύτασ οἰητέον αἱρετωτέρασ εἶναι· (Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, Book 10 79:3)
  • τὴν δὲ τότε μορφὴν τοῦ κόσμου, λέγω δὲ τὴν τε ὡρ́αν καὶ τὸ κάλλοσ ἀεὶ καλοῦ ὄντοσ ἀμηχάνωσ, οὐδεὶσ δύναιτ̓ ἂν ἀνθρώπων διανοηθῆναι καὶ εἰπεῖν ἀξίωσ οὔτε τῶν νῦν οὔτε τῶν πρότερον, εἰ μὴ Μοῦσαί τε καὶ Ἀπόλλων ἐν θείῳ ῥυθμῷ τῆσ εἰλικρινοῦσ τε καὶ ἄκρασ ἁρμονίασ. (Dio, Chrysostom, Orationes, 104:3)

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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