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AORIST
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A verb tense in some languages (classical Greek and Sanskrit) expressing action (especially past action) without indicating its completion or continuation
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("aorist" is a kind of...):
tense (a grammatical category of verbs used to express distinctions of time)
Derivation:
aoristic (of or relating to the aorist tense)
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