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Definition of Sayings

1. saying [n] - See also: saying

Lexicographical Neighbors of Sayings

Literary usage of Sayings

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"(4) The sayings attributed to Jesus by mere conjecture. Reach has put forth the conjecture that the words of Clem. Alex. Strom. ..."

2. A Critical and Exegetical Commentary on the Gospel According to S. Matthew by Willoughby Charles Allen (1907)
"In the sayings of denunciation of the Pharisees the context is different, ... The discourse about the last things in Mt 24 contains several sayings which ..."

3. The Harvard Classics by Charles William Eliot (1909)
"DICTES AND sayings OF THE PHILOSOPHERS FIRST EDITION (1477). EPILOGUE HERE endeth the book named The Dictes or sayings of the Philosophers, imprinted by me, ..."

4. Fifteenth Century Prose and Verse by Alfred William Pollard (1903)
"^Dictes and sayings of the Philosophers. First edition (1477). Epilogue. [ERE endeth the book named The Dictes or sayings of the Philosophers, imprinted by ..."

5. The Library of Original Sources: Ideas that Have Influenced Civilization, in edited by Oliver Joseph Thatcher (1915)
"His life and sayings are a protest against civilization itself, but have their value as against the luxuriousness of such a civilization as was that of ..."

6. Apocalyptic Sketches: Lectures on the Book of Revelation ; First and Second by John Cumming (1854)
"APOCALYPTIC sayings. " And ho saith unto me, Seal not the sayings of the prophecy of this ... The solemn issues in which these sayings shall terminate, ..."

7. Publications by English Dialect Society (1886)
"PROVERBS, COLLOQUIAL sayings, WEATHER-LORE, &c. In the following list of proverbial expressions I have made no attempt at classification, for I found it ..."

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