Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The loss of an initial, usually unstressed vowel from a word, as in cute from acute.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The gradual and unintentional removal of a short unaccented vowel at the beginning of a word; a special form of apheresis, as in
squire for esquire, down for adown, etc.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The loss of a short unaccented vowel at the beginning of a word; -- the result of a phonetic process.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun linguistics, prosody The
loss of theinitial unstressed vowel of aword .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the gradual disappearance of an initial (usually unstressed) vowel or syllable as in `squire' for `esquire'
Etymologies
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Examples
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Bated here is a contraction of abated through loss of the unstressed first vowel a process called aphesis; it means “reduced, lessened, lowered in force”.
Watch This: 44 Inch Chest Official Trailer with Ray Winstone « FirstShowing.net 2009
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Among phonetic changes which occur with more or less regularity are those called aphesis, epenthesis, epithesis, assimilation, dissimilation, and metathesis, convenient terms which are less learned than they appear.
The Romance of Names Ernest Weekley 1909
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[38] But anesis and aphesis in I.Esd. iv. 62 looks like a word-play in what may not be original Greek; though a Semitic original of that section of I.Esd. (iii. 1 to v. 6) is by no means proved.
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But this transformation of the [Greek: aphesis hamartiôn] into [Greek: charis metanoias] plainly shews that Clement had merely taken over from tradition the special estimate of the death of Christ as procuring salvation; for it is meaningless to deduce the [Greek: charis metanoias] from the blood of Christ.
History of Dogma, Volume 1 (of 7) Adolph Harnack 1890
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Testament was +paresis+ preparing the way for the complete +aphesis+ of the New.
History of Rationalism Embracing a Survey of the Present State of Protestant Theology 1868
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There were other charges brought against Cocceius, however, one of which was his distinction between +aphesis hamartiôn+ and +paresis hamartiôn+, by which he held that the former was a complete pardon, but the latter incomplete, and only in force under the old dispensation.
History of Rationalism Embracing a Survey of the Present State of Protestant Theology 1868
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_ [Greek: aphesis amartiôn] _ never means _forgiveness, _ one form at least of _God's_ sending away of sins; neither do I say that the taking of the phrase to mean _repentance for the remission of sins_, namely, repentance in order to obtain the pardon of God, involves any inconsistency; but I say that the word _ [Greek: eis] _ rather _unto_ than
Hope of the Gospel George MacDonald 1864
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(Hebrew deror or debt cancellation) and release (Greek aphesis) from debt bondage.
GlobalResearch.ca 2009
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The oratorio's text accordingly contained references to "breaking bonds asunder" and "casting away yokes," recalling the early Christian belief that the Messiah's reign would bring liberty (Hebrew deror or debt cancellation) and release (Greek aphesis) from debt bondage.
Slugger O'Toole 2009
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(Hebrew deror or debt cancellation) and release (Greek aphesis) from debt bondage.
GlobalResearch.ca 2009
ruzuzu commented on the word aphesis
See reesetee's list Fun with Aphesis.
April 7, 2011