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νεμεσητός

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: νεμεσητός

Structure: νεμεσητ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. causing indignation or wrath, enough to make, wroth
  2. to be regarded with awe, awful

Examples

  • πρὸσ γὰρ τῷ νεμεσητῷ καὶ ἀγεννέσ, ζῶντα μὲν τιμᾶν καὶ ποιεῖσθαι πολίτην, πεσόντοσ δ’ ὑφ’ ἑτέρου μὴ φέρειν τὴν χαρὰν μετρίωσ, ἀλλ’ ἐπισκιρτᾶν τῷ νεκρῷ καὶ παιωνίζειν, ὥσπερ αὐτοὺσ ἀνδραγαθήσαντασ· (Plutarch, Demosthenes, chapter 22 3:2)

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

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