Aphorist definitions and example sentences on Wordnik

“

From an interesting article on Dutch poetry in an old Foreign Quarterly Review I take an account of the aphorist: "Vondel had for his contemporary a man, of whose popularity we can hardly give an idea, unless we say that to speak Dutch and to have learnt Cats by heart, are almost the same thing.

—A Wanderer in Holland

View all »
Definitions (3)

American Heritage Dictionary

Century Dictionary (1)

A writer of aphorisms. He took this occasion of farther clearing and justifying what he had written against the aphorists. R. Nelson, Life of Bp. Bull, p. 246.

GNU Webster's 1913 (1)

WordNet (1)

Elsewhere on the web

View all »
Examples (15)

Have we as a nation, in the words of that old aphorist and patriot Ben Franklin, been frightened into giving up "essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety?" — NiemanWatchdog.org
Some home-schooled aphorist out there paid to watch — Slate Magazine
Karl Kraus (April 28, 1874 - June 12, 1936) was an Austrian writer and journalist, known as a satirist, essayist, aphorist, playwright and poet. — News Dissector Blog
George Santayana, the philosopher / aphorist who said "Those who cannot remember the past, are condemned to repeat it." — Top Stories - Google News
In his easy intimacy, in his personableness itself, he draws me in to subsume me. erotic aphorist, on the other hand, confronts me with the contradictions within my preconceptions in an attempt to overturn them, to find a new conceptual possibility. — Superfluities Redux