ἐξαίρεσις

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Ancient Greek

Etymology

ἐξαιρέω (exairéō, I take out, discharge , except, bereave of , transcend, claim as a freeman) +‎ -σῐς (-sis, suffix forming nouns of action)

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Noun

ἐξαίρεσῐς (exaíresisf (genitive ἐξαιρέσεως); third declension

  1. a taking out, extraction
  2. removal, purgation
  3. a way of taking out
  4. (rhetoric) taking exception, questioning of (an adversary’s arguments)
    1. (law) translating the Latin exceptiō
  5. transcendence
  6. a place where cargoes are landed, a wharf
  7. (law, in the phrase ἐξαιρέσεως δίκη) action against one who has asserted the free birth of a slave
  8. killing

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