Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun etc. See
apothegm , etc.
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- noun See
apothegm .
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- noun UK Alternative spelling of
apothegm .
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- noun a short pithy instructive saying
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Examples
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On folio 239. occurs the following apophthegm, which is the one relating to the subject before us: --
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Collier did so, and found that the moral of the Old Bachelor, the grave apophthegm which is to be a set-off against all the libertinism of the piece, is contained in the following triplet: --
Critical and Historical Essays, Volume III (of 3) Thomas Babington Macaulay Macaulay 1829
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Halpern Sr had always had a gift for the grouchy apophthegm.
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Yeah, my wife is a teacher, so I'm extra biased, but that rubbish apophthegm has always engendered a desire in me to give its adherents a thrashing with a buggy whip.
from the keyboard of patton oswalt jlundberg 2010
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Halpern Sr had always had a gift for the grouchy apophthegm.
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Patriotism having become one of our topicks, Johnson suddenly uttered, in a strong determined tone, an apophthegm, at which many will start: "Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel."
It's a Flee Country 2008
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For once, however, this apophthegm failed; the next call was altogether as ineffectual as the former; and moreover, attended with a phenomenon which to them was equally strange and inexplicable: this was no other than such a reduction in the size of Mrs. Trunnion as might have been expected after the birth of a full-grown child.
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To do Mrs Wilson justice, her nocturnal harangues upon such occasions not unfrequently terminated with this sage apophthegm, which always prefaced the producing of some provision a little better than ordinary, such as she now placed before him.
Old Mortality 2004
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Patriotism having become one of our topicks, Johnson suddenly uttered, in a strong determined tone, an apophthegm, at which many will start: ‘Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.’
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Indeed, this apophthegm he seldom repeated since his marriage, except in the company of a very few intimates, to whose secrecy and discretion he could trust.
quotato commented on the word apophthegm
apothegm
March 3, 2007
jmjarmstrong commented on the word apophthegm
JM clears his throat of the apophthegm build up.
January 10, 2011