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annoying attempt to sound smart or important
or more rarely (and typically in classic literature):
expressing wisdom or knowledge concisely
or more rarely (and typically in classic literature):
expressing wisdom or knowledge concisely
- ...for, the Genius of Youthful Love being in want of assistance,—on account of the parental brutality of an ignorant farmer who opposed the choice of his daughter's heart, by purposely falling upon the object, in a flour-sack, out of the first-floor window,—summoned a sententious Enchanter; and he, coming up from the antipodes rather unsteadily, after an apparently violent journey, proved to be Mr. Wopsle in a high-crowned hat, with a necromantic work in one volume under his arm.Chapter 47 (52% in)
There are no more uses of "sententious" in Great Expectations.
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