sage
noun
a profoundly wise person; a person famed for wisdom.
sageness
-
a word derived from
sage.
Example Sentences
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And even at 22, she possessed a sageness about relationships.
From Salon ● Apr. 23, 2024
It is sageness crowned with levity, what Aristotle meant when he spoke of “educated insolence.”
From The New Yorker ● Dec. 14, 2018
His inconsistencies stimulated many an epigrammatic alibi which passed as sageness.
From Time Magazine Archive
If we could renounce our sageness and discard our wisdom, it would be better for the people a hundredfold.
From The Tao Teh King, or the Tao and its Characteristics by James Legge
Though still but a child, it was not strange she should talk with the sageness of a woman.
From The Child Wife by Mayne Reid
