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sententious

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資料來源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

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.

資料來源 : WordNet®

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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