maxims (noun)

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• La Rochefoucauld — noun French writer of moralistic maxims (1613 1680) • Syn: ↑Francois de La Rochefoucauld • Instance Hypernyms: ↑writer, ↑author * * * /lann rddawsh fooh koh / François /frddahonn swann /, 6th Duc de, 1613 80, French moralist and composer of… …   Useful english dictionary

• Proverbs — noun A book of the Old Testament of Bible, and of the Tanakh, being a collection or moral maxims. See Also: Prov …   Wiktionary

• moral philosophy — noun Ethics. The maxims of common life were arranged in some methodical order, and connected together by a few common principles, in the same manner as they had attempted to arrange and connect the phenomena of nature. The science which pretends… …   Wiktionary

• spectrum typology — noun the study and organizing of objects or concepts that are often interchangeable in use; these objects/concepts have no clearly delineated, or universally accepted boundaries, demarcations, or definitions (or that have definitions that… …   Wiktionary

• maxim — noun ADJECTIVE ▪ general, simple ▪ famous ▪ old ▪ As the old maxim goes, ‘A picture is worth a thousand words’. VERB + MAXIM …   Collocations dictionary

• Ben Sira — noun an Apocryphal book mainly of maxims (resembling Proverbs in that respect) • Syn: ↑Sirach, ↑Ecclesiasticus, ↑Wisdom of Jesus the Son of Sirach • Instance Hypernyms: ↑book • Part Holonyms: ↑sapiential book, ↑ …   Useful english dictionary

• Ecclesiasticus — noun an Apocryphal book mainly of maxims (resembling Proverbs in that respect) • Syn: ↑Ben Sira, ↑Sirach, ↑Wisdom of Jesus the Son of Sirach • Instance Hypernyms: ↑book • Part Holonyms: ↑sapiential book, ↑ …   Useful english dictionary

• Francois de La Rochefoucauld — noun French writer of moralistic maxims (1613 1680) • Syn: ↑La Rochefoucauld • Instance Hypernyms: ↑writer, ↑author …   Useful english dictionary

• Sirach — noun an Apocryphal book mainly of maxims (resembling Proverbs in that respect) • Syn: ↑Ben Sira, ↑Ecclesiasticus, ↑Wisdom of Jesus the Son of Sirach • Instance Hypernyms: ↑book • Part Holonyms: ↑sapiential book, ↑ …   Useful english dictionary

• talker — noun someone who expresses in language; someone who talks (especially someone who delivers a public speech or someone especially garrulous) the speaker at commencement an utterer of useful maxims • Syn: ↑speaker, ↑utterer, ↑verbalizer,… …   Useful english dictionary

• utterer — noun 1. an organism that can utter vocal sounds an utterer of foul oaths is the giraffe a vocalizer? • Syn: ↑vocalizer, ↑vocaliser • Derivationally related forms: ↑vocalise (for: ↑ …   Useful english dictionary