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单词 sententiousness
释义 sententiousness|sɛnˈtɛnʃəsnɪs|
[f. sententious a. + -ness.]
The state or quality of being sententious.
1530Palsgr. 269/1 Sentenciousnesse.1656Earl of Monmouth tr. Boccalini's Advts. fr. Parnass. i. lxxxvi. 176 His brevity of succinct speaking, full of gravity, matter, sententiousness.1725Broome Notes to Pope's Odyss. i. 41 The solemnity and sententiousness of this speech is taken notice of by Eustathius.1828D'Israeli Chas. I, I. iv. 80 The old King, with that pointed sententiousness he frequently used, said [etc.].1862M. E. Braddon Lady Audley xxvii, ‘When people make favourites, they are apt to be deceived by them’, Miss Tonks answered, with icy sententiousness.1870Mozley Univ. Serm. iv. (1877) 94 The frigid sententiousness..of their utterance.
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