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Adage

//ˈæd.ɪd͡ʒ// noun

Noun

1
An old saying which has obtained credit by long use.
"He describes the operation thus: "The heavy ram employed to impart the finishing strokes, hoisted up with double purchase and snail's pace to the summit of the Piling Engine, and then falling down like a thunderbolt on the head of the devoted timber, driving it perhaps a single half inch in to the stratum below, is well calculated to put to the test the virtue of patience, while it illustrates the old adage of—slow and sure.""
2
a condensed but memorable saying embodying some important fact of experience that is taken as true by many people wordnet
3
An old saying which has been overused or considered a cliché; a trite maxim.
"Like the poore Cat i’ th’ Addage."

Borrowed from Middle French adage, from Latin adā̆gium.

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