gnomic

• Then, when Morgan asked what she meant, she expanded with the gnomic: 'in a park'. —  Watch With Mothers
• They took earlier to the line of reasonable and dignified narrative, reducing the lyrical element, perhaps increasing the gnomic or reflective proportions of their work. —  Epic and Romance Essays on Medieval Literature
• Usually, the philosophy attributed to Solomon exhibits a soundness of judgment which is unrivaled, so it is reasonable to assume that in Hebrew gnomic thought four do not constitute a multitude, because four people agreed with Curtis that there was not the slightest need to mention Jean de Courtois to Hermione that evening, and five people were wrong, though in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred they might have been right. —  One Wonderful Night A Romance of New York
• Here we have first religious meditations and legends of Saints, then proverbial, or as they are called "gnomic" verses, next allegorical descriptions by means of animals, and finally riddles. —  History of English Humour, Vol. 1 (of 2) With an Introduction upon Ancient Humour
• From his occasional poems an expert and careful hand might easily gather a noble anthology of excerpts, chiefly gnomic or meditative, allegoric or descriptive. —  The Age of Shakespeare

Allen's Synonyms and Antonyms

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