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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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Dictionary Results for sententious:
1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)
sententious
    adj 1: abounding in or given to pompous or aphoristic
           moralizing; "too often the significant episode
           deteriorates into sententious conversation"- Kathleen
           Barnes
    2: concise and full of meaning; "welcomed her pithy comments";
       "the peculiarly sardonic and sententious style in which Don
       Luis composed his epigrams"- Hervey Allen [syn: pithy,
       sententious]

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Sententious \Sen*ten"tious\, a.[L. sentenciosus: cf. F.
   sentencieux.]
   1. Abounding with sentences, axioms, and maxims; full of
      meaning; terse and energetic in expression; pithy; as, a
      sententious style or discourse; sententious truth.
      [1913 Webster]

            How he apes his sire,
            Ambitiously sententious!              --Addison.
      [1913 Webster]

   2. Comprising or representing sentences; sentential. [Obs.]
      "Sententious marks." --Grew.
      [1913 Webster] -- Sen*ten"tious*ly, adv. --
      Sen*ten"tious*ness, n.
      [1913 Webster]

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