What's the difference between aphoristic and apothegmatic?

Aphoristic


Definition:

  • (a.) Alt. of Aphoristical

Example Sentences:

  • (1) More than 2,000 years ago aphorist Publilius Syrus expressed precisely the same idea: "Debt is the slavery of the free", as did the Bible: "The rich rules over the poor and the borrower is the slave of the lender".
  • (2) Martin Amis, who has little time for Vidal the novelist, recognised the glory of the witty, learned, aphoristic essays.
  • (3) But that fine aphorist of late capitalism missed an efficiency saving.
  • (4) He writes in terse numbered paragraphs, following Nietzsche's aphoristic style.
  • (5) Is there anything else I can do to piss you off?” A picture of Obama with “Does this ass make my car look big?” The Republican style for 2016 is angry aphoristic humor.

Apothegmatic


Definition:

  • (a.) Alt. of Apothegmatical

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