The corpus record

καινότης

kainotes · ἡ

newness, freshness

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Where it lives

Romans 2 · 2.85/10k
Regnorum III 1 · 0.52/10k
Ezechiel 1 · 0.35/10k
History 1 · 0.07/10k

What it meant — LSJ

newness, freshness

newness, freshness, Plu. Per. 13; αἱ τῶν δερμάτων -τητες Philostr. Ep. 18.

2 novelty, novelties

novelty, λόγου Th. 3.38; τῶν εὑρημένων Isoc. 10.2; χρὴ γὰρ εἰς ὄχλον φέρειν . . ὅσʼ ἄν τις καινότητʼ ἔχειν δοκῇ Anaxandr. 54.6; ἡ ἐν τοῖς σχηματισμοῖς κ. D.H. Amm. 2.3: pl., καινότητες novelties, Isoc. 2.41; αἱ κ. καὶ αἱ ὑπερβολαὶ τῶν τιμῶν D.C. 44.3.

In the wild

καινότητι · kainotēti New Testament, Romans 6.4 (DIORISIS sentence 131)
καινότητι · kainotēti New Testament, Romans 7.6 (DIORISIS sentence 160)
καινότητος · kainotētos Septuaginta, Ezechiel 47
καινότητος · kainotētos Septuaginta, Regnorum III 8
καινότητος · kainotētos Thucydides, History 3.38.5 (DIORISIS sentence 1971)

Where it came from

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