STRONGS G664:
ἀποτόμως, adverb (cf.
ἀποτομία);
a. abruptly, precipitously.
b. tropically,
sharply, severely [cf. our
curtly]:
Titus 1:13;
2 Corinthians 13:10. On the adjective
ἀπότομος cf. Grimm on Sap., p. 121 [who in illustration of its use in Wis. 5:20, 22; Wis. 6:5, 11; Wis. 11:10; Wis. 12:9; Wis. 18:15, refers to the similar metaphorical use in Diodorus 2, 57; Longinus, de sublim. 27; and the use of the Latin
abscisus in Valerius Maximus, 2, 7, 14, etc.; see also Polybius 17, 11, 2; Polycarp, ad Phil. 6, 1].
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