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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

  • ἀνάγκησ οὐ κινητέον, ὥσπερ οἱ πολλοὶ κενώσεωσ ἕνεκα πληροῦντεσ τὸ σῶμα καὶ πάλιν πληρώσεωσ κενοῦντεσ παρὰ φύσιν, ταῖσ πλησμοναῖσ οὐχ ἧττον ἢ ταῖσ ἐνδείαισ ἀνιώμενοι, μᾶλλον δ’ ὅλωσ τὴν μὲν πλήρωσιν ὡσ κώλυσιν ἀπολαύσεωσ βαρυνόμενοι, τὴν δ’ ἔνδειαν ὡσ χώραν ἀεὶ ταῖσ ἡδοναῖσ παρασκευάζοντεσ. (Plutarch, De tuenda sanitate praecepta, chapter, section 22 1:1)
  • ναί, φησίν, ὀνίνανται μέν, ἀλλ’ αὐτῷ μόνῳ τῷ λόγῳ τῆσ κενώσεωσ. (Galen, On the Natural Faculties., , section 1370)
  • καὶ τῆσ κενώσεωσ ἄρα φροντιστέον αὐτῆσ μόνησ, ἀμελητέον δὲ τῆσ γενέσεωσ; (Galen, On the Natural Faculties., B, section 83)
  • εἰ δὲ μή, ἀλλ’ ὅτι γε τῆσ τούτου κενώσεωσ ὀρθῶσ ἡ φύσισ προὐνοήσατο, καὶ τοῦτ’ ἐν τοῖσ περὶ χρείασ μορίων εἰρήσεται. (Galen, On the Natural Faculties., B, section 992)
  • ὅσον οὖν ἐμφέρεται ταῖσ φλεψὶ φλέγμα χρήσιμον ὑπάρχον τοῖσ ζῳοίσ, οὐδεμιᾶσ δεῖται κενώσεωσ. (Galen, On the Natural Faculties., B, section 994)

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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