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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

  • τὰ σφοδρὰ καὶ περιμανῆ καὶ οἰστρώδη κινήματα τῶν ἐπιθυμιῶν τοῦ λόγου κατασβέσαντοσ, ὧν δ’ ἡ φύσισ ἀναγκαίωσ δεῖται, ταῦθ’ ὁμοπαθῆ καὶ ὑπήκοα καὶ φίλα καὶ συνεργὰ πεποιημένου ταῖσ πρακτικαῖσ προαιρέσεσιν· (Plutarch, De virtute morali, section 7 1:2)
  • αἱ δὲ τύχαι, τοῖσ συμπτώμασι μᾶλλον ἢ ταῖσ προαιρέσεσιν οὖσαι αἱ αὐταί, συνάγουσι τῶν ἀνδρῶν τοὺσ βίουσ εἰσ ὁμοιότητα. (Plutarch, Dion, chapter 2 1:1)
  • τούτων δ’ ὄντων μὲν τὸν ἀριθμὸν εἰσ τρισχιλίουσ, ταῖσ δ’ ὁρμαῖσ καὶ ταῖσ προαιρέσεσιν εὐθετωτάτων πρὸσ τὴν κατάλυσιν τῆσ δημοκρατίασ προσεπελέξατο καὶ τῶν πολιτῶν τοὺσ διὰ πενίαν καὶ φθόνον ἐναντιουμένουσ ταῖσ τῶν ἰσχυόντων ἐπιφανείαισ. (Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca Historica, Books XVIII-XX, book 19, chapter 6 3:2)

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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