sententiosity
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English[edit]
Noun[edit]
sententiosity (usually uncountable, plural sententiosities)
- (obsolete) The quality or state of being sententious.
- 1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC:
- beyond the extemporary sententiosity of common conceits
References[edit]
- “sententiosity”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.