apophthegm
Example Sentences
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They made apophthegm take the place of message.
From Legends & Romances of Spain by Spence, Lewis
Between a maxim, an aphorism, and an apophthegm, and in a more obvious degree, between these and an adage and a proverb, the etymologist and the lexicographer may easily find a distinction.
From Maxims and Reflections by Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von
That famous apophthegm leads us nearer to the saving truth.
From Nature Mysticism by Mercer, John Edward
The middle row, the first to be inscribed, deals with the Epicurean theory of atoms—not by apophthegm or aphorism, but with something of the fulness and technicality of a treatise.
From The Conflict of Religions in the Early Roman Empire by Glover, T. R. (Terrot Reaveley)
The perverseness of mankind makes it often mischievous 37in men of eminence to give way to merriment; the idle and the illiterate will long shelter themselves under this foolish apophthegm.
From The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. in Nine Volumes Volume the Eighth: The Lives of the Poets, Volume II by Johnson, Samuel
