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Meanings of apothegm in anglès

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A short pithy instructive saying.

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        Apothegms.

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              Examples for "apothegms"
              1
              He uttered keen apothegms that have lived like those of Solon.
              Steam, Steel and Electricity
              2
              His opinions were maxims, his utterances apothegms, his lightest word authority.
              The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 110, December, 1866 / A Mag...
              3
              Between them art stickers setting forth the latest apothegms of the Great Man.. View Article
              The new yorker
              4
              L-y seasoned the severity of his political apothegms with intermediate sallies of mirth and gallantry.
              Travels through France and Italy
              5
              His indignant apothegms are like oracles of misanthropy.
              Lectures on the English Poets; Delivered at the Surrey Instituti...
              Usage of apothegm in anglès
              1
              It is expressed in maxim and apothegm, in play and poem.
              Friendship
              2
              And the woman merely became irrelevant with her apothegm about foreigners.
              Somewhere in Red Gap
              3
              Among them, Anderson's ideas and comments were included, flanked by an occasional apothegm.
              Villa Elsa / A Story of German Family Life
              4
              The second, chosen presumably for the sake of the paradox, was the French apothegm:
              Little Memoirs of the Nineteenth Century
              5
              That last apothegm might be the motto of this book.
              The ode less travelled: unlocking the poet within
              6
              Let me die upon this apothegm, for I shall never make a truer one.
              P.'s Correspondence (From "Mosses from an Old Manse")
              7
              The Delphic apothegm, "Know thyself," was said to have descended from heaven:
              The Destiny of the Soul: A Critical History of the Doctrine of a...
              8
              The girl died without profiting by this official apothegm.
              The Damnation of Theron Ware
              9
              Jeff chuckled at the apothegm even while he protested.
              The Vision Splendid
              10
              I dared make no retort to Zenobia's concluding apothegm.
              The Blithedale Romance
              11
              Madame Gréville's final apothegm had suggested one of them.
              The Real Adventure
              12
              One might gather the impression that the apothegm of Sir William Hamilton needed a slight amendment.
              The Reminiscences of an Astronomer
              13
              It has been an apothegm these five thousand years, that toil sweetens the bread it earns.
              The Old Manse (From "Mosses from an Old Manse")
              14
              He begins to doubt the wisdom of reliance upon that worn apothegm about absence conquering love.
              The Complete Writings of Charles Dudley Warner — Volume 1
              15
              The great poet Mutanebbi has given us an apothegm of great power on this very subject.
              The Women of the Arabs
              16
              Zoe took no notice of this droll apothegm.
              A Woman-Hater
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              Apothegm through the time