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dictum
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synonyms: apothegm, aphorism, epigram, maxim, jeu dʼesprit ???
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Definition:1. An authoritative statement; a dogmatic saying; an apothegm.2. (Law)(a) A judicial opinion expressed by judges on points that do not necessarily arise in the case, and are not involved in it.(b) (French Law) The report of a judgment made by one of the judges who has given it. Bouvier.(c) An arbitrament or award.Noah Webster. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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"[...] jealousy means lowering both myself and her," he told himself as he went into her boudoir; but this dictum, which had always had such weight with him before, had now no weight and no meaning at all.
Leo Tolstoy. Anna Karenina (Translated by Constance Garnett)
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all through this voyage, she had acted on Nelson's dictum "lose not an hour."
Cecil Scott Forester. The African Queen, p.116 (1935)
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“Then no more need be said: change the subject.”
Amy Eshton, not hearing or not heeding this dictum,
Charlotte Brontë. Jane Eyre (1847)
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