προαιρέσεως (proaireseos)

προαιρέσεως is an Ancient Greek form of προαίρεσις, meaning “choice, purpose, policy”. It is the genitive singular feminine noun.

Found 236 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Plutarch, Comparison of Theseus and Romulus 1.1: … μὲν οὖν ἄξια μνήμης πυθέσθαι περὶ Ῥωμύλου καὶ Θησέως συμβέβηκεν ἡμῖν, ταῦτʼ ἐστί. φαίνεται δὲ πρῶτον ὁ μὲν ἐκ προαιρέσεως, οὐδενὸς ἀναγκάζοντος, ἀλλʼ ἐξὸν ἀδεῶς ἐν Τροιζῆνι βασιλεύειν διαδεξάμενον ἀρχὴν οὐκ ἄδοξον, αὐτὸς ἀφʼ ἑαυτοῦ …

Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Antiquitates Romanae 7.64.2: λαβόμενον. ἦν γὰρ ἀληθὴς ἡ τῶν λαφύρων διάδοσις, οὐ μὴν ἐκ προαιρέσεώς γε πονηρᾶς καὶ ἐπὶ κατασκευῇ τυραννίδος, ὡς ὁ Δέκιος ᾐτιᾶτο, γενομένη, ἀλλʼ ἀπὸ παντὸς τοῦ βελτίστου καὶ ἐπαν …

All forms of προαίρεσις (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.