aphorist
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of aphorist
First recorded in 1705–15; aphor(ize) + -ist
Example Sentences
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The French aphorist François de La Rochefoucauld remarked that “hypocrisy is the tribute vice pays to virtue.”
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 9, 2026
Still, buy the premise and you’ll enjoy the bit, as David Letterman, an aphorist of sorts himself, used to say.
From The New Yorker • Jul. 15, 2019
He was an aphorist, a progressive journalist, a provocative essayist and a tragedian.
From Washington Post • Jul. 31, 2018
“The winner of the game is the player who makes the next-to-last mistake,” said Savielly Tartakower, a Polish grandmaster from the first half of the 20th century and the game’s greatest aphorist.
From The Guardian • Sep. 14, 2016
Profounder truth, that keen aphorist, the Sage of Chelsea, never cast into heroic mould.
From Vondel's Lucifer by Vondel, Joost van den
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