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Katharevusa
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1. katharevusa
literary style of Modern Greek containing features borrowed from Koine
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Katharevusa
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a literary style of Modern Greek, derived from the Attic dialect of Ancient Greek and including many archaic features
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Katharevusa
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The puristic, archaizing form of Modern Greek, having morphological and lexical features borrowed from Koine.
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