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Ancient Greek
Etymology
From ᾰ̓σεβής (asebḗs, “impious”) + -ια (-ia).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /a.sé.beː.a/ → /aˈse.βi.a/ → /aˈse.vi.a/
Noun
ᾰ̓σέβειᾰ • (asébeia) f (genitive ᾰ̓σεβείᾱς); first declension
- impiety, ungodliness[1]
- (Late Antiquity) heresy[2]
Philostorgius,
Church History §2.2:
- ...διὰ τῆς ἐν ταῖς μελῳδίαις ἡδονῆς ἐκκλέπτων πρὸς τὴν οἰκείαν ἀσέβειαν τοὺς ἀμαθεστέρους τῶν ἀνθρώπων.
- ...dià tês en taîs melōidíais hēdonês ekkléptōn pròs tḕn oikeían asébeian toùs amathestérous tôn anthrṓpōn.
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Descendants
References
- ^ Liddell and Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon, 9th ed. (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1940), p. 255.
- ^ See G. W. H. Lampe, ed., A Patristic Greek Lexicon (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1961), p. 242
Further reading
- “ἀσέβεια”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- ἀσέβεια in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
- “ἀσέβεια”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- ἀσέβεια in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
- blasphemy idem, page 82.
- godlessness idem, page 365.
- immorality idem, page 418.
- impiety idem, page 421.
- irreligion idem, page 459.
- irreverence idem, page 460.
- profanity idem, page 653.
- sacrilege idem, page 729.
- sin idem, page 777.
- sinfulness idem, page 777.
- transgression idem, page 888.
- unbelief idem, page 908.
- ungodliness idem, page 919.
- unholiness idem, page 921.
- unrighteousness idem, page 930.
- wickedness idem, page 978.
- worldliness idem, page 989.