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παραίτησις

Third declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: παραίτησις παραίτησεως

Structure: παραιτησι (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: from paraite/omai

Sense

  1. earnest prayer
  2. a deprecating
  3. an interceding for, begging off

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

  • γενομένησ γὰρ ἡσυχίασ καὶ πολλῆσ ἐμπεσούσησ ὀλίγου δεῖν πᾶσι τοῖσ δημοτικοῖσ προθυμίασ ἀπολύειν αὐτόν, εἰ τὸν παρόντα θεραπεύσειε καιρόν, τοιαύτην αὐθάδειαν ἐπεδείξατο λόγων, καὶ τοσοῦτον αὐτῶν κατεφρόνησεν, ὥστε παρελθὼν ἔξαρνοσ μὲν ὑπὲρ οὐθενὸσ ἦν τῶν πρὸσ τὴν βουλὴν εἰρημένων κατὰ τοῦ πλήθουσ, οὐδ’ ὡσ μεταγινώσκων ἐπ’ αὐτοῖσ εἰσ οἴκτουσ καὶ παραιτήσεισ ἐτρέπετο· (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, Books VII-IX, book 7, chapter 34 4:1)
  • ἐγὼ μὲν οὐκ ἔχω, πῶσ ἐπαινέσω ταῦτα τὰ σκληρὰ καὶ ὑπέραυχα καὶ τὴν θνητὴν φύσιν ἐκβεβηκότα δικαιώματα ὁρῶσα καταφυγὰσ εὑρημένασ ἅπασιν ἀνθρώποισ καὶ παραιτήσεισ, ὧν ἂν ἐξαμαρτάνωσι περὶ ἀλλήλουσ, ἱκετηρίασ καὶ λιτὰσ ὑφ’ ὧν μαραίνεται πᾶσα ὀργὴ καὶ ἀντὶ τοῦ μισεῖν τὸν ἐχθρὸν ἐλεεῖ· (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae, Books VII-IX, book 8, chapter 50 4:1)
  • καὶ πολλαί μοι παραιτήσεισ ἐγίγνοντο ὑπὲρ τούτων καὶ πρὸσ τὸν θεὸν καὶ πρὸσ τοὺσ ἐπιτηδείουσ τοὺσ ἀεὶ δεομένουσ εἰπεῖν καὶ ποιῆσαι περὶ αὐτῶν. (Aristides, Aelius, Orationes, 1:6)

Synonyms

  1. earnest prayer

Related

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

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