Both Uses
adage
in
Democracy In America, Volume 1
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- The lower orders, when first they are invested with political rights, stand, in relation to those rights, in the same position as the child does to the whole of nature, and the celebrated adage may then be applied to them, Homo puer robustus.†
Chpt 14adage = saying
- Hitherto no one in the United States has dared to advance the maxim, that everything is permissible with a view to the interests of society; an impious adage which seems to have been invented in an age of freedom to shelter all the tyrants of future ages.†
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Definitions:
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(1)
(adage) an old saying considered wise by many; e.g., "Actions speak louder than words."
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)