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Brocard   Listen
noun
Brocard  n.  An elementary principle or maximum; a short, proverbial rule, in law, ethics, or metaphysics. "The legal brocard, "Falsus in uno, falsus in omnibus," is a rule not more applicable to other witness than to consciousness."






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"Brocard" Quotes from Famous Books



... famous brocard with which he silences all unacceptable queries turning in the slightest degree upon the failings of our neighbours,—'If we mend our own faults, Alan, we shall all of us have enough to do, without sitting in judgement ...
— Redgauntlet • Sir Walter Scott



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