ἀκρασία

** ἀκρασία, -ας, ἡ

(< ἀκρατής, q.v.), [in LXX: I Mac 6:26*;]

in Arist. and later writers = ἀκράτεια (Lft., Notes, 222 f.), want of power, hence want of self-control, incontinence: Mt 23:25, I Co 7:5.†