ἐπαινοῦντας (epainountas)

ἐπαινοῦντας is an Ancient Greek form of ἐπαινέω, meaning “praise, approve”. It is the present active participle accusative plural masculine.

Found 41 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Plutarch, Theseus 6.4: … ὲ καὶ δικαιοσύνην καὶ τὸ ἴσον καὶ τὸ φιλάνθρωπον, ὡς ἀτολμίᾳ τοῦ ἀδικεῖν καὶ φόβῳ τοῦ ἀδικεῖσθαι τοὺς πολλοὺς ἐπαινοῦντας, οὐδὲν οἰομένους προσήκειν τοῖς πλέον ἔχειν δυναμένοις.

Basil, Saint, Bishop of Caesarea, Epistulae 210·2: πῶς οὖν ὁ τότε καλούμενος οὐχ ὑπακούων, νῦν ἐπεχείρουν ἂν ἄκλητος εἰσωθίζεσθαι; πῶς δὲ ὁ τοὺς ἐπαινοῦντάς με καὶ θαυμάζοντας ἀποφεύγων, ἔμελλον ἂν νῦν διώκειν τοὺς διαβάλλοντας; μὴ οἰηθῆτε, ὦ ἄριστοι· οὐχ οὕτως εὔων …

All forms of ἐπαινέω (conjugation 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.