δέησιν (deesin)

δέησιν is an Ancient Greek form of δέησις, meaning “request, entreaty”. It is the accusative singular feminine noun.

Found 88 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum 10.1.84: … λοις ἡμῖν γεγραμμένα δυσμνημόνευτα εἶναι, καί τοι, ὡς ἔφης, συνεχῶς αὐτὰ βαστάζεις. ἡμεῖς δὲ ἡδέως τέ σου τὴν δέησιν ἀπεδεξάμεθα καὶ ἐλπίσιν ἡδείαις συνεσχέθημεν.

Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae 1.40.3: … οίκων, ἧς μέγα ἐποιοῦντο ἄρχειν, παρανόμους τινὰς ἐξ αὐτῆς ἐκβαλὼν ἀνθρώπους. λέγεται δὲ πρὸς τούτοις, ὡς καὶ δέησίν τινα ποιήσαιτο τῶν ἐπιχωρίων, ἐπειδὴ πρῶτοι θεὸν αὐτὸν ἐνόμισαν, ὅπως ἀθανάτους αὐτῷ διαφυλάττωσι τὰς τιμὰς, …

All forms of δέησις (declension table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Liddell-Scott-Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.