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n. A writer or utterer of aphorisms.
The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
n. A writer of aphorisms.
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n. someone who formulates aphorisms or who repeats aphorisms
Word Usage
"Devotees of popular history will have met some of these stories in the work of Liza Picard, Witold Rybczynski, Daniel Boorstin and others, but it's hard to imagine a better synthesizer than Bryson, or a pithier aphorist."