ἱερωσύνης (hierosynes)

ἱερωσύνης is an Ancient Greek form of ἱερωσύνη, meaning “priesthood”. It is the genitive singular feminine noun or adjective.

It can also be a form of ἱερώσυνος, “priestly (garbled)”. It is the genitive singular feminine noun or adjective.

Found 47 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Plutarch, Marcellus 2.2: … ῦντα δὲ μᾶλλον ἀγορανόμον μὲν ἀπέδειξε τῆς ἐπιφανεστέρας τάξεως ὁ δῆμος, οἱ δὲ ἱερεῖς αὔγουρα. τοῦτο δʼ ἐστὶν ἱερωσύνης εἶδος, ᾧ μάλιστα τὴν ἀπʼ οἰωνῶν μαντικὴν ἐπιβλέπειν καὶ παραφυλάττειν νόμος δέδωκεν.

Aristotle, Constitution of the Athenians 57.2: γραφαὶ δὲ λαγχάνονται πρὸς αὐτὸν ἀσεβείας, κἄν τις ἰερωσύνης ἀμφισβητῇ πρός τινα. διαδικάζει δὲ καὶ τοῖς γένεσι καὶ τοῖς ἱερεῦσι τὰς ἀμφισβητήσεις τὰς ὑπὲρ τῶν ἱερῶν ἁπάσ …

All forms of ἱερωσύνη (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.