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apothegmatizing

apothegmatizing is the present participle and gerund of apothegmatize.

Meaning of apothegmatize

Verb

apothegmatize (third-person singular simple present apothegmatizes, present participle apothegmatizing, simple past and past participle apothegmatized)

  1. (intransitive) To utter apothegms (short witty sayings).
    • This occurs with the stylization of the impasse of reflexive consciousness, of the movement of the mind that we can call A therefore not-A and that Beckett apothegmatizes in the phrase "imagination dead imagine" and elsewhere explicates as "the expression that there is nothing to express, nothing...1992, J. M. Coetzee, Doubling the Point: Essays and Interviews

Questions about apothegmatizing

What is apothegmatizing the present participle and gerund of?
Apothegmatizing is the present participle and gerund of apothegmatize.

Words near apothegmatizing in the dictionary

  1. apothegmatist
  2. apothegmatists
  3. apothegmatize
  4. apothegmatized
  5. apothegmatizes
  6. apothegmatizing
  7. apothegmic
  8. apothegms
  9. apotheke
  10. apothekes
  11. apothem

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