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χρηστότης

Third declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: χρηστότης χρηστότητος

Structure: χρηστοτητ (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: from xrhsto/s

Sense

  1. (of persons) goodness, honesty
  2. goodness of heart, kindness

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

  • καὶ ἐφώνησαν δἰ ὕμνων εὐλογοῦντεσ τῷ Κυρίῳ, ὅτι ἡ χρηστότησ αὐτοῦ καὶ ἡ δόξα εἰσ τοὺσ αἰῶνασ ἐν παντὶ Ἰσραήλ. (Septuagint, Liber Esdrae I 5:58)
  • ἀκολουθεῖ δὲ τῇ ἀρετῇ χρηστότησ, ἐπιείκεια, εὐγνωμοσύνη, ἐλπὶσ ἀγαθή. (Aristotle, Virtues and Vices 45:2)
  • εἴσῃ γὰρ ὅση πρὸσ τὸν Ξένιον ἡ αἰδὼσ καὶ ἡ ἄλλη ἐπιείκεια καὶ χρηστότησ. (Lucian, Scytha 13:4)
  • οὑτωσὶ μὲν εἰπεῖν, χρηστότησ ἐπέτριψεν αὐτὸν καὶ φιλανθρωπία καὶ ὁ πρὸσ τοὺσ δεομένουσ ἅπαντασ οἶκτοσ, ὡσ δὲ ἀληθεῖ λόγῳ, ἄνοια καὶ εὐήθεια καὶ ἀκρισία περὶ τῶν φίλων, ὃσ οὐ συνίει κόραξι καὶ λύκοισ χαριζόμενοσ, ἀλλ’ ὑπὸ γυπῶν τοσούτων ὁ κακοδαίμων κειρόμενοσ τὸ ἧπαρ φίλουσ εἶναι αὐτοὺσ καὶ ἑταίρουσ ᾤετο, ὑπ’ εὐνοίασ τῆσ πρὸσ αὐτὸν χαίροντασ τῇ βορᾷ· (Lucian, Timon, (no name) 8:1)
  • ἡ γὰρ χρηστότησ γνώμησ ἐστὶν ἀρετὴ καὶ ἀπὸ τῆσ διανοίασ καὶ γνώμησ προαίρεσισ καὶ τρόπων ἐπιείκεια. (Aristides, Aelius, Ars Rhetorica, , 5:2)

Synonyms

  1. goodness

  2. goodness of heart

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