Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The puristic, archaizing form of Modern Greek, having morphological and lexical features borrowed from Koine.
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- noun literary style of Modern Greek containing features borrowed from Koine
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[Modern Greek kathareuousa, from Greek, feminine present participle of kathareuein, to be pure, from katharos, pure.]
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The original Greek text of I Confess One Baptism, published in 1983 and currently out of print, was written in Katharevusa, and many passages quoted therein are in an even older form of the Greek Language.
orrologion 2009
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