From the following context clues, determine what definition of "sententious" Lawrence is using. And Melville really is a bit sen
tentious: aware of himself, self-conscious, putting something over even himself. But then it's not easy to get into the swing of a piece of deep mysticism when you just set out with a story. Nobody can be more clownish, more clumsy and sententiously in bad taste, than Herman Melville, even in a great book like Moby D*ck. He preaches and holds forth because he's not sure of himself. And he holds forth, often, so amateurishly. —D.H. Lawrence, from Studies in Classic American Literature Hint: The following all correctly define "sententiously." Think connotation. tense and energetic concise and full of meaning preachy; given to ponderous moral lecturing precise and exact
The definition of "sententious" that is used in the excerpt is given to ponderous moral lecturing
We can deduce that by the expressions; aware of himself, self-conscious, putting something over even himself. and He preaches and holds forth because he's not sure of himself.
This option has a more complete and extense meaning of the word in comparison with the other options.
Match the dictionary to the description. 1. The Shorter Oxford Dictionary catalogs nonstandard British English 2. Roget's Thesaurus catalogs nonstandard American langua
