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sententious |
2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Sententious \Sen*ten"tious\, a.[L. sentenciosus: cf F. sentencieux.] 1. Abounding with sentences, axioms, and maxims; full of meaning; terse and energetic in expression; pithy; as a sententious style or discourse; sententious truth. How he apes his sire, Ambitiously sententious! --Addison. 2. Comprising or representing sentences; sentential. [Obs.] ``Sententious marks.'' --Grew. --- {Sen*ten"tious*ly}, adv -- {Sen*ten"tious*ness}, n. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: sententious adj 1: abounding in or given to pompous or aphoristic moralizing; "too often the significant episode deteriorates into sententious conversation"- Kathleen Barnes 2: concise and full of meaning; "welcomed her pithy comments"; "the peculiarly sardonic and sententious style in which Don Luis composed his epigrams"- Hervey Allen [syn: {pithy}]
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