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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.

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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