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‖ sententia|sɛnˈtɛnʃɪə|
Pl. -æ (erron. -a).
[L.]
= sentence n. 4 a. Also in mod. use, a thought or reflection.
1917E. E. Cummings Let. 5 May (1969) 19 The immemorially delightful sententia of a pocket-size sailor..i.e. ‘submarines pooh-pooh’. 1926C. Connolly Let. 25 Dec. in Romantic Friendship (1975) 199, I sent you one diary for quotations and the other was for sententiae. 1933R. Tuve Seasons & Months i. 43 The Seasons motif found new uses... It became a vehicle for ‘sententia’, folk proverbs which appealed to generations fed upon Hending and Alfred. 1960Times 29 Sept. 15/5 Those platitudinous sententiae that pass for conversational small change. 1964C. S. Lewis Discarded Image vii. 191 Chaucer begins with a Sententia or maxim in the Parlement. 1971English Studies LII. 456 An attempt is made to trace the process by which the popular proverb attained equal status with the literary sententia. |