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μισοπόνηρος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: μισοπόνηρος μισοπόνηρον

Structure: μισοπονηρ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. hating knaves

Examples

  • ἀλλ’ ἐὰν μὲν κολάσητε, δόξετε σώφρονεσ εἶναι καὶ καλοὶ κἀγαθοὶ καὶ μισοπόνηροι, ἂν δ’ ἀφῆτε, ἄλλου τινὸσ ἡττῆσθαι. (Demosthenes, Speeches 21-30, 280:2)
  • ᾧ καὶ διέδειξαν οὐ φιλολάκωνεσ ὄντεσ, ἀλλ̓ ἁπλῶσ φιλέλληνεσ καὶ φιλοδίκαιοι καὶ φιλελεύθεροι καὶ μισοπόνηροι καὶ μισοτύραννοι. (Dio, Chrysostom, Orationes, 32:1)

Synonyms

  1. hating knaves

Related

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

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