The corpus record

μωμάομαι

momaomai

find fault with, blame, criticize

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Where it lives

2 Corinthians 2 · 4.46/10k
Sapientia Salomonis 1 · 1.45/10k
Agamemnon 1 · 1.23/10k
Protagoras 2 · 1.13/10k
Birds 1 · 0.94/10k
Proverbia 1 · 0.9/10k
Siracides 1 · 0.54/10k
Iliad 1 · 0.09/10k

What it meant

μωμ-άομαι · mōm-aomai — LSJ

find fault with, blame, criticize

find fault with, blame, criticize, c. acc., Il. l.c., Thgn. 169, 369, Simon. l.c., A. l.c., Ar. Av. 171, Call. Dian. 222:—poet., Ion. (Democr. 48, Eus.Mynd. 1), and later Prose, Luc. Hist.Conscr. 33, al.: aor. μωμηθῆναι in pass. sense, 2 Ep.Cor. 6.3; v. μωκάομαι.

In the wild

ἐμωμήσω · emōmēsō Aeschylus, Agamemnon 277
μωμᾷ · mōmai Aristophanes, Birds (DIORISIS sentence 162)
μωμήσονται · mōmēsontai Iliad 3.412
μωμηθῇ · mōmēthēi New Testament, 2 Corinthians 6.3 (DIORISIS sentence 94)
μωμήσηται · mōmēsētai New Testament, 2 Corinthians 8.18 (DIORISIS sentence 147)
μωμήσομαι · mōmēsomai Plato, Protagoras 346

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Where it came from

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