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apothegm

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8 lettersPronunciation /ˈæ.pə.θɛm/Part of speech nounSorted aeghmoptStarts with AEnds with M0 clues
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Definitions

  1. a short pithy instructive saying

Word origin

From French apophthegme or Medieval Latin apothegma, from Ancient Greek ἀπόφθεγμα (apóphthegma), from ἀποφθέγγομαι (apophthéngomai, “speak out”).

Used in a sentence

  • "You are too wonderful!" he would say. "How do you find time for everything?" She rejoined with the apophthegm that made the rounds of Riseholme next day. "My dear, it is just busy people that have time for everything."
  • For the gods have withheld from the barbarians the light of discretion, as that their poetry is not, like ours, full of choice apophthegms and useful maxims, but is all of love and war.
  • The gnomic belief that the world is conditioned by love is no idle apothegm.

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