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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

  • εἶδον σὺν πάντα τὰ ποιήματα τὰ πεποιημένα ὑπὸ τὸν ἥλιον, καὶ ἰδοὺ τὰ πάντα ματαιότησ καὶ προαίρεσισ πνεύματοσ. (Septuagint, Liber Ecclesiastes 1:14)
  • καὶ καρδία μου εἶδε πολλά, σοφίαν καὶ γνῶσιν, παραβολὰσ καὶ ἐπιστήμην ἔγνων ἐγώ, ὅτι καί γε τοῦτό ἐστι προαίρεσισ πνεύματοσ. (Septuagint, Liber Ecclesiastes 1:17)
  • καὶ ἐπέβλεψα ἐγὼ ἐν πᾶσι ποιήμασί μου, οἷσ ἐποίησαν αἱ χεῖρέσ μου, καὶ ἐν μόχθῳ, ᾧ ἐμόχθησα τοῦ ποιεῖν, καὶ ἰδοὺ τὰ πάντα ματαιότησ καὶ προαίρεσισ πνεύματοσ, καὶ οὐκ ἔστι περισσεία ὑπὸ τὸν ἥλιον. (Septuagint, Liber Ecclesiastes 2:11)
  • καὶ ἐμίσησα σὺν τὴν ζωήν, ὅτι πονηρὸν ἐπ̓ ἐμὲ τὸ ποίημα τὸ πεποιημένον ὑπὸ τὸν ἥλιον, ὅτι πάντα ματαιότησ καὶ προαίρεσισ πνεύματοσ. (Septuagint, Liber Ecclesiastes 2:17)
  • ὅτι τῷ ἀνθρώπῳ τῷ ἀγαθῷ πρὸ προσώπου αὐτοῦ ἔδωκε σοφίαν καὶ γνῶσιν καὶ εὐφροσύνην. καί τῷ ἁμαρτάνοντι ἔδωκε περισπασμὸν τοῦ προσθεῖναι καὶ τοῦ συναγαγεῖν, τοῦ δοῦναι τῷ ἀγαθῷ πρὸ προσώπου τοῦ Θεοῦ. ὅτι καί γε τοῦτο ματαιότησ καὶ προαίρεσισ πνεύματοσ. (Septuagint, Liber Ecclesiastes 2:26)

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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