Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The quality of being sage; wisdom; sagacity; prudence; gravity.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The quality or state of being sage; wisdom; sagacity; prudence; gravity.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The property of being
sage .
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Examples
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I think he's lost his right to speak on anything with any veracity or sageness.
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There is supposed to be some wisdom, some sageness allowing you to realize all things – big and small – are, in affect, who you are.
Deleting « Lab Kat 2008
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Be able to talk about your book and your writing in a semi-intelligent manner, and maintain some semblance of sageness and sobriety after hours.
July 2007 2007
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Be able to talk about your book and your writing in a semi-intelligent manner, and maintain some semblance of sageness and sobriety after hours.
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And I don't mean because I agree with him-just the measured tones, experience and sageness.
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Well it was a big enough deal that he brought it up in all his shaggy sageness as being pivotal in the primary battle (yawn).
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Carol hit upon the tragedy of old age, which is not that it is less vigorous than youth, but that it is not needed by youth; that its love and prosy sageness, so important a few years ago, so gladly offered now, are rejected with laughter.
Main Street 2004
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Renounce sageness and discard wisdom, and the people will benefit a hundredfold.
Tao Te Ching 2002
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Renounce sageness and discard wisdom, and the people will benefit a hundredfold.
Tao Te Ching 2002
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To show how I profit by your sageness, let us drop all thought of this royal maiden who is probably out of my reach, and attend to the other business.
The Bay State Monthly — Volume 2, No. 5, February, 1885 Various
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