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analects

[ an-l-ekts ]

plural noun

  1. selected passages from the writings of an author or of different authors.


analects

/ ˌænəˈlɛktə; ˈænəˌlɛkts /

plural noun

  1. selected literary passages from one or more works
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Derived Forms

  • ˌanaˈlectic, adjective
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Other Words From

  • ana·lectic adjective
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Word History and Origins

Origin of analects1

1615–25; < Latin analecta < Greek análekta, neuter plural of análektos (verbal adjective of analégein to pick up, gather up), equivalent to ana- ana- + -lek- gather (variant of -leg- ) + -tos verbal adjective suffix
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Word History and Origins

Origin of analects1

C17: via Latin from Greek analekta, from analegein to collect up, from legein to gather
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Example Sentences

He wrote: “Analects,” etc., and is credited with having compiled the “Ancient Poems.”

We are told in the Confucian Analects that the master said, “The accomplished scholar is not a utensil.”

The doctrine of the sage is clearly expressed in the Analects, and amounts only to courtesy and propriety.

But by this method one misses much of the characterisation which is such an attractive feature of the Analects.

The works of Mencius abound, like the Confucian Analects, in sententious utterances.

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