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Apophthegm   Listen
noun
Apophthegm  n.  See Apothegm.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Apophthegm" Quotes from Famous Books



... comes in the peculiarly paralysing effect of these baser emotions. As Victor Hugo once said, in a fine apophthegm, "Despair yawns." Fear and anxiety bring with them a particular kind of physical fatigue which makes us listless and inert. They lie on the spirit with a leaden dullness, which takes from us all possibility of ...
— Where No Fear Was - A Book About Fear • Arthur Christopher Benson

... traditional maxims! History! Facts dramatised say rather—action—plot— Sentiment, everything the writer's own, As it bests fits the web-work of his story, With here and there a solitary fact Of consequence, by those grave chroniclers, Pointed with many a moral apophthegm, And wise old saws, ...
— Friends in Council (First Series) • Sir Arthur Helps



Words linked to "Apophthegm" :   maxim, aphorism, apothegm



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