The corpus record

δεινότης

deinotes · ἡ

terribleness

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Where it lives

Theaetetus 3 · 1.33/10k
Nicomachean Ethics 4 · 0.71/10k
Epistles 1 · 0.59/10k
Phaedo 1 · 0.46/10k
History 5 · 0.33/10k

What it meant

δεινότης · deinotēs — LSJ

terribleness, harshness, severity

terribleness, Th. 3.59, 4.10; harshness, severity, νόμων Id. 3.46.

II cleverness, shrewdness

cleverness, shrewdness, D. 18.144, Arist. EN 1144a23; opp. ἀλήθεια, Antipho 5.5; esp. in an orator, Th. 3.37, D. 18.242,277; ἡ ἐν τοῖς λόγοις δ. Isoc. 1.4; δεινότητα λόγου ἐπιδείκνυσθαι Plu. Pomp. 77.

III intensity, forcefulness

Rhet., intensity, forcefulness, D.H. Comp. 18, Th. 53, al., Longin. 34.4, Hermog. Id. 2.9, al.: pl., Demetr. Eloc. 243.

In the wild

δεινότητα · deinotēta Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics 1144a (DIORISIS sentence 2187)
δεινότητα · deinotēta Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics 1144b (DIORISIS sentence 2198)
δεινότης · deinotēs Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics 1144b (DIORISIS sentence 2206)
δεινότητα · deinotēta Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics 1152a (DIORISIS sentence 2486)
δεινότητας · deinotētas Plato, Epistles 358
δεινότητα · deinotēta Plato, Phaedo 82 (DIORISIS sentence 589)

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Where it came from

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