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ἐπανόρθωσις?

Third declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration: epanorthōsis

Principal Part: ἐπανόρθωσις ἐπανόρθωσεως

Structure: ἐπανορθωσι (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Sense

  1. a correcting, revisal

Declension

Third 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

  • εἴπαμεν γὰρ τῷ βασιλεῖ, ὅτι ἡ ἰσχὺς τοῦ Κυρίου ἡμῶν ἔσται μετά τῶν ἐπιζητούντων αὐτὸν εἰς πᾶσαν ἐπανόρθωσιν. (Septuagint, Liber Esdrae I 8:52)
  • καὶ Ἰόππην ὠχύρωσε τὴν ἐπὶ τῆς θαλάσσης καὶ τὴν Γάζαρα τὴν ἐπὶ τῶν ὁρίων Ἀζώτου, ἐν ᾗ ᾤκουν οἱ πολέμιοι τὸ πρότερον ἐκεῖ, καὶ κατῴκισεν ἐκεῖ Ἰουδαίους, καὶ ὅσα ἐπιτήδεια ἦν πρὸς τὴν τούτων ἐπανόρθωσιν, ἔθετο ἐν αὐτοῖς. (Septuagint, Liber Maccabees I 14:34)
  • Τὰ μὲν ἄλλα, ἔφη, οὐ ῥάδιον ἀλλάττειν ὁπόσα ἐκ Κλωθοῦς καὶ τῶν ἄλλων Μοιρῶν πάσχετε, ἃ δέ ἐστι τῆς ἑορτῆς, ἐπανορθώσομαι ὑμῖν τὴν πενίαν, ἡ δὲ ἐπανόρθωσις ἥδε ἔστω: (Lucian, Saturnalia, 2:8)
  • ὁ δὲ Βροῦτος τὸν ἔσχατον ἀγῶνα ὑπὲρ τῶν ὅλων οὔθ ὑποστῆναι δοκεῖ φρονίμως οὔτε σφαλεὶς ἐπανόρθωσιν εὑρεῖν, ἀλλ ἀπεῖπε καὶ προεῖτο τὰς ἐλπίδας, οὐδ ὅσον Πομπήϊος ἐπιτολμήσας τῇ τύχῃ: (Plutarch, Comparison of Dion and Brutus, chapter 3 2:1)
  • τί τούτου χάρμα μεῖζον ἂν λάβοις, καὶ πρὸς ἐπανόρθωσιν ἠθῶν ἐνεργότερον· (Plutarch, Aemilius Paulus, chapter 1 2:2)
  • τίς οὖν τούτων ἐπανόρθωσις ἑτέρα πλὴν ἧς αὐτὸς δίδωσι τοῖς δέχεσθαι βουλομένοις· (Plutarch, De animae procreatione in Timaeo, section 91)
  • τοῦτο γὰρ ἦν ἐπανόρθωσις ἁμαρτίας, ἐκεῖνο δὲ κατηγορία καὶ προπηλακισμός Ἔτι δὲ καὶ τὰς ἐν τοῖς γένεσι διαφορὰς σκεπτέον, ὧν τοιοῦτός ἐστιν ὁ τρόπος. (Plutarch, Quomodo adolescens poetas audire debeat, chapter, section 10 16:1)
  • τοῦτο μὲν οὖν καὶ διὰ τῆς Ἀσίας κομίσαιτ ἂν ἴσως, ἂν ὑμῖν δοκῇ, ἡ δὲ τῶν ὅλων ἐπανόρθωσις μόνων ὑμῶν, οἷς οἱ θεοὶ τὰ τηλικαῦτα ἀπέδοσαν. (Aristides, Aelius, Orationes, 5:6)
  • ἐν δὲ τῇ δευτέρᾳ πειρᾶται διόρθωσίν τινα ποιεῖσθαι τῆς γεωγραφίας καὶ τὰς ἑαυτοῦ λέγει ὑπολήψεις, πρὸς ἃς πάλιν εἰ ἔστι τις ἐπανόρθωσις, πειρατέον προσφέρειν. (Strabo, Geography, book 1, chapter 4 2:2)

Synonyms

  1. a correcting

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

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