παρρησίαν (parresian)

παρρησίαν is an Ancient Greek form of παρρησία, meaning “frankness, freedom of speech”. It is the accusative singular feminine noun.

Found 205 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum 2.13.123: … οὺς Σωκρατικούς. ἐπαγγειλαμένου δὲ Περικλέους θρέψειν αὐτὸν καὶ κελεύοντος ἀπιέναι πρὸς αὐτόν, οὐκ ἂν ἔφη τὴν παρρησίαν ἀποδόσθαι.

Basil, Saint, Bishop of Caesarea, Epistulae 46: … τὴν ἔρημον, ἐπὶ τὸν ἔλεγχον τῆς παρανομίας δραμεῖν, καὶ εἰ παθεῖν τι δέοι τὴν κεφαλὴν ἀποθέσθαι μᾶλλον ἢ τὴν παῤῥησίαν· τάχα δὲ μᾶλλον, εἴπερ καὶ ἡμῖν, κατὰ τὸν μακάριον Ἄβελ, καὶ αὐτὸς ἀποθανὼν ἔτι λαλεῖ, καὶ νῦν βοᾷ καὶ κέκραγ …

All forms of παρρησία (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.