The corpus record

τᾰπεινότης

tapeinotes · ἡ

lowness, low estate, abasement, lowness of spirits, dejection

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Where it lives

Virtues and Vices 2 · 13.49/10k
Statesman 1 · 0.59/10k
Siracides 1 · 0.54/10k
Eudemian Ethics 1 · 0.38/10k
Meditations 1 · 0.34/10k
Rhetoric 1 · 0.23/10k
Hellenica 1 · 0.15/10k
Lives of Eminent Philosophers 1 · 0.09/10k
History 1 · 0.07/10k
Histories 1 · 0.05/10k

What it meant — LSJ

lowness

lowness of position, etc., ταπεινότητος εἵνεκα Hdt. 4.22; τ. τῆς χώρας D.S. 1.31; τῆς μήτρας Placit. 5.14.2.

2 low estate, abasement

of condition, low estate, abasement, Th. 7.75; εἰς τοσαύτην τ. καταστῆσαι Isoc. 4.118, cf. D. 10.74, Men. 531.12, LXX Si. 13.20, Phld. D. 1.11.

3 lowness of spirits, dejection

lowness of spirits, dejection, σιωπήν τε καὶ τ. X. HG 3.5.21.

4 baseness, vileness

in moral sense, baseness, vileness, Pl. Plt. 309a; joined with μικροψυχία, Arist. Rh. 1384a4.

5 meanness

of style, meanness, Quint. Inst. 8.3.48.

In the wild

ταπεινότητα · tapeinotēta Aristotle, Eudemian Ethics 3
ταπεινότητος · tapeinotētos Aristotle, Rhetoric 2
ταπεινότης · tapeinotēs Aristotle, Virtues and Vices (DIORISIS sentence 66)
ταπεινότης · tapeinotēs Aristotle, Virtues and Vices (DIORISIS sentence 69)
ταπεινότητα · tapeinotēta Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 7.1 (DIORISIS sentence 6117)
ταπεινότητος · tapeinotētos Herodotus, Histories 4.22.2 (DIORISIS sentence 4231)

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