Gnomic: Gnomic, gnome, and gnostic all share the same etymology: a Greek root for knowledge. So how did gnome become little magical people, gnostic become a mystical religious movement, and gnomic become an aphorism, brief and opaque?There pronouncements are characteristically gnomic and rigorous; to the average confused female they musty seem terrifying.A Book for Today: The Female Eunuch by Germaine Greer
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