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ἀναίδειαν (anaideian)

ἀναίδειαν is an Ancient Greek form of ἀναίδεια, meaning “shamelessness”. It is the accusative singular feminine noun.

Found 40 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Euripides, Heracles 165: ἔχει δὲ τοὐμὸν οὐκ ἀναίδειαν, γέρον,

Xenophon, Symposium 8.35: … νων κἂν μὴ ἐν τῇ αὐτῇ [;πόλει]; ταχθῶσι τῷ ἐραστῇ, ὁμοίως αἰδοῦνται τοὺς παρόντας ἀπολείπειν. θεὰν γὰρ οὐ τὴν Ἀναίδειαν ἀλλὰ τὴν Αἰδῶ νομίζουσι.

Plato, Laws 1.647: … ὶ πᾶς οὗ καὶ σμικρὸν ὄφελος, τοῦτον τὸν φόβον ἐν τιμῇ μεγίστῃ σέβει, καὶ καλῶν αἰδῶ, τὸ τούτῳ θάρρος ἐναντίον ἀναίδειάν τε προσαγορεύει καὶ μέγιστον κακὸν ἰδίᾳ τε καὶ δημοσίᾳ πᾶσι νενόμικεν; ὀρθῶς λέγεις. οὐκοῦν τά τʼ ἄλλα πολλὰ …

All forms of ἀναίδεια (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.