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κενοδοξ-ία

kenodoxia · ἡ

liability to vain imagination

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Where it lives

Philippians 1 · 6.26/10k
Machabaeorum IV 2 · 2.59/10k
Sapientia Salomonis 1 · 1.45/10k
Lives of Eminent Philosophers 3 · 0.28/10k

What it meant

κενοδοξ-ία · kenodox-ia — LSJ

liability to vain imagination

liability to vain imagination, Epicur. Sent. 30, Phld. Rh. 1.332 S.

II vanity, conceit, false prudery

vanity, conceit, Plb. 3.81.9, LXX Wi. 14.14, D.S. 17.107, Ph. 2.47, Ep.Phil. 2.3, Plu. Adul. 2.57d, Porph. Marc. 15; esp. of false prudery, Gal. 6.415.

In the wild

κενοδοξίαν · kenodoxian Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 10.1 (DIORISIS sentence 9361)
κενοδοξίαν · kenodoxian Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 2.5 (DIORISIS sentence 1320)
κενοδοξίας · kenodoxias Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 7.2 (DIORISIS sentence 6569)
κενοδοξίαν · kenodoxian New Testament, Philippians 2.1 (DIORISIS sentence 18)
κενοδοξίας · kenodoxias Septuaginta, Machabaeorum IV 2
κενοδοξίαν · kenodoxian Septuaginta, Machabaeorum IV 8

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