sts.

A form of sometimes — On some occasions, over some periods, or in certain circumstances, but not always.

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Meanings

sts.1

adverbsts. (not comparable)
  1. abbreviationnot comparableAbbreviation of sometimes.

    V. General List of Abbreviations … sts. = sometimes

    1940, Henry George Liddell & Robert Scott & Henry Stuart Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon. Seventh Edition. Revised and augmented throughout by Sir Henry Stuart Jones with the assistance of Roderick McKenzie (LSJ), Oxford, Clarendon Press, New York
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    The following list provides some of the more common abbreviations [...] sts. sometimes

    2001, Matthew S. DeMoss, “Pocket Dictionary for the Study of New Testament Greek”, in Abbreviations, Expressions & Sigla, InterVarsity Press, page 131 & 137

    To call upon, invoke a person or thing as witness: testatus sts. pass., as collat. testo, is sts. found.

    2003, LeaAnn A. Osburn, Horace Fully Parsed, page 127

    … the pl. is sts. used in token of greater respect …

    2004, Arthur Anthony Macdonell, A Practical Sanskrit Dictionary (First Indian Edition), Delhi, p.202

    εἰ μή is sts. used with the sense of ἀλλά (cf. Gal 2:16).

    2014, B. H. McLean, Hellenistic and Biblical Greek, page 156
noun
  1. pluralplural of st.

Sts.2

noun
  1. pluralplural of St. (“street; saint”)

    Cor. Georgia and Sacramento Sts.

    1918, Coast Banker and Pacific Banker and California Banker, page 377
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