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What is the noun for sententiousness?

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sentence
  1. (obsolete) Sense; meaning; significance.
  2. (obsolete) One's opinion; manner of thinking. [14th-17th c.]
  3. (now rare) A pronounced opinion or judgment on a given question. [from 14th c.]
  4. (dated) The decision or judgement of a jury or court; a verdict. [from 14th c.]
  5. The judicial order for a punishment to be imposed on a person convicted of a crime. [from 14th c.]
  6. A punishment imposed on a person convicted of a crime.
  7. (obsolete) A saying, especially form a great person; a maxim, an apophthegm. [14th-19th c.]
  8. (grammar) A grammatically complete series of words consisting of a subject and predicate, even if one or the other is implied, and typically beginning with a capital letter and ending with a full stop. [from 15th c.]
  9. (logic) A formula with no free variables. [from 20th c.]
  10. (computing theory) Any of the set of strings that can be generated by a given formal grammar. [from 20th c.]
  11. Synonyms:
  12. Examples:
    1. “The key is to construct your sentence so it conveys its message clearly and precisely.”
      “The relatively lenient sentence has been widely interpreted as a blow to efforts to combat crime.”
      “At present, he is serving his sentence in a Mordovian concentration camp.”
sentencing
  1. The act of pronouncing a judicial sentence on someone convicted of a crime.
  2. (colloquial) The act of creating one or more complete sentences from fragmented thoughts and phrases.
sentoid
  1. (linguistics) A sentence-like chunk of language.
sententiousness
  1. The state or condition of being sententious.
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “This is perhaps due to the quotability and sententiousness of his couplets.”
      “He supplies a grand moral sententiousness blessedly free from the messy squalor of life as it's lived here, I suppose.”
      “It allows the sententiousness of the couplet, as well as the more complex modulation of blank verse.”
sententiosity
  1. (obsolete) The quality or state of being sententious.
sententiality
  1. The state or condition of being sentential.
sentencehood
  1. (linguistics) The property of being a sentence.
sentencer
  1. One who sentences.
  2. Examples:
    1. “Revealing a weak spot was a death sentence, and he had become the sentencer.”
      “I think that is why this judge was a relatively timid sentencer, afraid to really ram a defendant.”
      “The question of what weight to give to the offender's youth was determined by the sentencer on a case-by-case basis.”
sententiosities
  1. plural of sententiosity
sentencings
  1. plural of sentencing
sentencers
  1. plural of sentencer
sentences
sentoids
  1. plural of sentoid
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