sententia
Americannoun
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sententiae
plural
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Etymology
Origin of sententia
First recorded in 1915–20; from Latin sententia; see origin at sentence ( def. )
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At Wrexham the tower is most magnificent; and in the church is a white marble monument of Lady Middleton, superior, "mea quidem sententia", to anything in Westminster Abbey.
From Biographia Epistolaris, Volume 1. by A. Turnbull
Pataky, wishing to conceal the fatal message from her, addressed Banfi in the Latin tongue— "Surge Domine! sententia lethalis adest!"
From 'Midst the Wild Carpathians by M?r J?kai
Another opinion—and St. Alphonsus calls it sententia verior—denies that such a course is lawful.
From The Divine Office by Edward J. Quigley
Quod sententia sit bŏlĕcomprobat amphibolīa, Quodque fides brŏgĕsit comprobat Allobroga.
From The Age of Erasmus Lectures Delivered in the Universities of Oxford and London by P. S. (Percy Stafford) Allen
This proposition may be characterized as sententia communior et probabilior.
From Grace, Actual and Habitual A Dogmatic Treatise by Arthur Preuss
If nothing had survived of Seneca's plays but a collection of sententiae, we might have regretted his loss almost as we regret the loss of Menander.
From Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal by Harold Edgeworth Butler
Plutarch believed that poetry gained this end by enunciating moral and philosophical sententiae, not by allegory, which Plutarch made sport of.
From Rhetoric and Poetry in the Renaissance A Study of Rhetorical Terms in English Renaissance Literary Criticism by Donald Lemen Clark
Quot homines, tot sententiae, so many men, so many minds: that which thou condemnest he commends.
From The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton
He praises very highly such sententiae as "Virtue keeps its luster untarnished," and "know thyself."
From Rhetoric and Poetry in the Renaissance A Study of Rhetorical Terms in English Renaissance Literary Criticism by Donald Lemen Clark
It took the form of a caution against “mixing up things that differ,” and to this also among his sententiae I assented quod latius patet.
From Tennyson and His Friends by Various
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