About The Word Sententious
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Sententious
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What's The Definition Of Sententious?
[adj] concise and full of meaning; "welcomed her pithy comments"; "the peculiarly sardonic and sententious style in which Don Luis composed his epigrams"- Hervey Allen
[adj] abounding in or given to pompous or aphoristic moralizing; "too often the significant episode deteriorates into sententious conversation"- Kathleen Barnes Synonyms | Synonyms for Sententious: concise | pithy | pretentious Related Terms | Find terms related to Sententious: See Also | Sententious In Webster's Dictionary \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.
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