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apothegm
or ··ٳ
[ ap-uh-them ]
noun
- a short, pithy, instructive saying; a terse remark or aphorism.
apothegm
/ ˈæəˌθɛ /
noun
- a variant spelling of apophthegm
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Other 51Թ Forms
- ··ٳ·· [ap-, uh, -theg-, mat, -ik], o·ٳ·i· adjective
- o·ٳ·i··ly adverb
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The fact that it was the manipulative monster Chairman Mao who said, “All genuine knowledge originates in direct experience,” does not make the apothegm less true.
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These go by other names too: maxim, apothegm, dictum, epigram, gnome, and sentence.
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One of my father’s favorite apothegms was that “you can’t argue with success.”
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His most famous apothegm—“What you see is what you see”—is no help, if seeing is supposed to imply comprehending.
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On Saturday, Broner apologized for his language, invoking an apothegm of his own invention.
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