ὁσίως (hosios)

ὁσίως is an Ancient Greek form of ὅσιος, meaning “holy, lawful”. It is the adjective.

It can also be a form of ὁσιόω, “make holy; keep oneself pure”.

Found 85 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum 5.1.6: προειρημένον Ἑρμίαν, ἀλλὰ καὶ ἐπίγραμμα ἐπὶ τοῦ ἐν Δελφοῖς ἀνδριάντος τοιοῦτον· τόνδε ποτʼ οὐχ ὁσίως παραβὰς μακάρων θέμιν ἁγνὴν ἔκτεινεν Περσῶν τοξοφόρων βασιλεύς, οὐ φανερῶς λόγχῃ φονίοις ἐν ἀγῶσι κρατήσας, ἀ …

All forms of ὅσιος (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.