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Definition of Truisms
1. truism [n] - See also: truism
Lexicographical Neighbors of Truisms
Literary usage of Truisms
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Principles of Economics by Fred Manville Taylor (1921)
"CHAPTER XIV SOME MONEY truisms Having briefly analyzed and described the system
of Money and Credit Exchange, it is now in order to set forth some of the ..."
2. Handy-book of Literary Curiosities by William Shepard Walsh (1892)
"Teach your grandmother to suck eggs, a familiar English proverb, applied to the
aspiring youth who utters truisms for paradoxes, or, ..."
3. New Adventures by Michael Monahan (1917)
"XXIV When head and heart ripen together, rich is the harvest. xxv Fail not to
make a daily offering to the great god Futility! Truths and truisms BARRING ..."
4. The King's English by Henry Watson Fowler, Francis George Fowler (1906)
"truisms AND CONTRADICTIONS IN TERMS A contradiction in terms is often little more
than a truism turned inside out; we shall therefore group the two together ..."
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