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προαίρεσις

Third declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: προαίρεσις προαίρεσεως

Structure: προαιρεσι (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: proaire/omai

Sense

  1. a choosing, before, an act of deliberate choice, a purpose, resolution, on purpose, as one will
  2. a purpose, plan, scope, a course of life, principle
  3. a deliberate course of action, a policy, a mode, principles, your general policy
  4. a department of government
  5. a political party

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

  • πέπεισμαι γὰρ αὐτὸν ἐπιεικῶσ καὶ φιλανθρώπωσ παρακολουθοῦντα τῇ ἐμῇ προαιρέσει συμπεριενεχθήσεσθαι ὑμῖν». (Septuagint, Liber Maccabees II 9:27)
  • ὅτι γίνεται τῷ ἀνθρώπῳ ἐν παντὶ μόχθῳ αὐτοῦ καὶ ἐν προαιρέσει καρδίασ αὐτοῦ, ᾧ αὐτὸσ μοχθεῖ ὑπὸ τὸν ἥλιον. (Septuagint, Liber Ecclesiastes 2:22)
  • διατί ἀπέστρεψεν ὁ λαόσ μου οὗτοσ ἀποστροφὴν ἀναιδῆ καὶ κατεκρατήθησαν ἐν τῇ προαιρέσει αὐτῶν καὶ οὐκ ἠθέλησαν τοῦ ἐπιστρέψαι̣ (Septuagint, Liber Ieremiae 8:5)
  • τὸν δὲ καὶ φύσει καὶ αὖθισ προαιρέσει καὶ γνώμῃ ἐσπεποιημένον, πῶσ εὔλογον αὖθισ ἀπωθεῖσθαι καὶ πολλάκισ τῆσ μιᾶσ οἰκειότητοσ ἀποστερεῖν ; (Lucian, Abdicatus, (no name) 12:3)
  • τὸ μὲν δὴ μανθάνειν ὅσα τῇ τοιαύτῃ προαιρέσει πρόσφορα μακρὸν ἦν, μᾶλλον δὲ κομιδῇ ἀδύνατον, αἱ τέχναι δὲ γλίσχραι, καὶ σὺν πόνῳ καὶ μόγισ ἱκανὰ παρέχειν ἐδύναντο. (Lucian, Fugitivi, (no name) 13:1)

Synonyms

  1. a department of government

  2. a political party

Related

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

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