Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for SEN-TEN'TIOUS-NESS
SEN-TEN'TIOUS-LYSENTERY, or SENTRY
SEN-TEN'TIOUS-NESS, n.
Pithiness of sentences; brevity by with strength. The Medea I esteem for its gravity and sententiousness. Dryden.
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