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ἐλευθέρωσις

Third declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἐλευθέρωσις ἐλευθέρωσεως

Structure: ἐλευθερωσι (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: from e)leuqe/rwsis

Sense

  1. a setting free

Examples

  • ἐκ τούτου προγράμματι μὲν ἐδήλωσεν ὁ Γάλβασ ἡμέραν ἐν ᾗ τὰσ κατά μέροσ ἐλευθερώσεισ ἀποδώσει τοῖσ δεομένοισ, λαλιὰ δὲ καὶ φήμη προεκπεσοῦσα πλῆθοσ ἀνθρώπων ἤθροισε προθύμων ἐπὶ τὸν νεωτερισμόν. (Plutarch, Galba, chapter 5 1:1)
  • ἐφ’ οἷσ ἔδοτε μέν τινα καὶ αὐτῷ Μιθριδάτῃ δίκην, ἀπίστῳ τε ἐσ ὑμᾶσ γενομένῳ, καὶ φόνου καὶ δημεύσεων ἐμπλήσαντι ὑμᾶσ, καὶ γῆσ ἀναδασμοὺσ ἐργασαμένῳ καὶ χρεῶν ἀποκοπὰσ καὶ δούλων ἐλευθερώσεισ, καὶ τυράννουσ ἐπ’ ἐνίοισ, καὶ λῃστήρια πολλὰ ἀνά τε γῆν καὶ θάλασσαν, ὡσ εὐθὺσ ὑμᾶσ ἔχειν ἐν πείρᾳ καὶ παραβολῇ οἱούσ ἀνθ’ οἱών προστάτασ ἐπελέγεσθε. (Appian, The Foreign Wars, chapter 9 3:8)

Synonyms

  1. a setting free

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

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