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κένωσις

Third declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: κένωσις κένωσεως

Structure: κενωσι (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: keno/w

Sense

  1. an emptying

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

  • ἄριστον μὲν οὖν τὸ μετρίᾳ διαίτῃ καὶ σώφρονι τὸ σῶμα ποιεῖν περὶ τε πληρώσεισ καὶ κενώσεισ αὐτοτελὲσ ἀεὶ καὶ σύμμετρον· (Plutarch, De tuenda sanitate praecepta, chapter, section 22 9:1)
  • ἔμπαλιν δ’ εἰ χολαγωγὸν δοίησ, καὶ πάμπολυ κενώσεισ καὶ βλάψεισ οὐδέν. (Galen, On the Natural Faculties., , section 1380)
  • ὅσα δὲ κατὰ σμικρὸν τὰσ ἀποχωρήσεισ ἑαυτῶν καὶ κενώσεισ εἴληφεν, τὰσ δὲ πληρώσεισ ἁθρόασ καὶ κατὰ μεγάλα, κενώσεωσ μὲν ἀναίσθητα, πληρώσεωσ δὲ αἰσθητικὰ γιγνόμενα, λύπασ μὲν οὐ παρέχει τῷ θνητῷ τῆσ ψυχῆσ, μεγίστασ δὲ ἡδονάσ· (Plato, Hippias Major, Hippias Minor, Ion, Menexenus, Cleitophon, Timaeus, Critias, Minos, Epinomis, 304:3)
  • ἀπορίαν, τὰσ τῶν πόρων κενώσεισ καὶ ἀναπληρώσεισ, ἐν τῷ παραυτίκα τοῖσ δὲ διψῶσι τοὐναντίον, ἐὰν ἐμφάγωσιν, ἐπιτείνειν συμβαίνει τὸ δίψοσ. (Plutarch, Quaestiones Convivales, book 6, 2:1)
  • τοιαῦτα κενώσεισ τινέσ εἰσιν τῆσ περὶ τὸ σῶμα ἕξεωσ; (Plato, Republic, book 9 366:1)

Synonyms

  1. an emptying

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

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