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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

  • ἐλευθέρωσισ Ἀθηναίων καὶ Μεγαρέων. (Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca Historica, Books XVIII-XX, book 20, chapter pr41)
  • ἐκ δὲ τούτων εὐθεώρητον ὑπάρχειν πᾶσιν ὅτι μεταλαμβάνουσι τὰσ Ἑλληνικὰσ πέδασ παρὰ Φιλίππου Ῥωμαῖοι, καὶ γίνεται μεθάρμοσισ δεσποτῶν, οὐκ ἐλευθέρωσισ τῶν Ἑλλήνων. (Polybius, Histories, book 18, chapter 45 6:1)
  • τοιγαροῦν σεμνότατον τῶν ὑμετέρων ἔργων ἡ τῶν Ἑλλήνων ἐλευθέρωσισ. (Polybius, Histories, book 21, chapter 23 10:1)

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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