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Date: 1400-1500
Language: Latin
Origin: sententiosus 'full of meaning', from sententia; SENTENCE1

sententious

 adjective
     
sen‧ten‧tious formal
telling people how they should behave - used in order to show disapproval:
sententious remarks
—sententiously adverb
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