Sententious Definition

sĕn-tĕnshəs
adjective
Expressing much in few words; short and pithy; pointed.
Webster's New World
Full of, or fond of using, maxims, proverbs, etc., esp. in a way that is ponderously trite and moralizing.
Webster's New World
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Origin of Sententious

  • Middle English from Old French sententieux from Latin sententiōsus full of meaning from sententia opinion sentence

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From Latin sententiōsus, from sententia (“opinion, purpose").

    From Wiktionary

Sententious Sentence Examples

  • In the next year followed the Considerations sur les richesses et le luxe, combating the opinions of Necker; and in 1788 the more valuable Considerations sur l'esprit et les mceurs, a book which abounds in sententious, but often excessively frank, sayings.

  • An increase of sententious imperative clauses is also to be noted.

  • At the Restoration, pulpit oratory in England became drier, less picturesque and more sententious.

  • Music he disregarded, and all poetry that was more than sententious prose.

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