summum bonum
Americannoun
noun
Example Sentences
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After all, if what is good for a nation is more important than what is good for a family, surely the greatest good, the secular summum bonum, is the good of the human race.
From Salon • Aug. 23, 2011
If to sell all is the summum bonum, go, see the broker now and have done with it.'
From Windyridge by Riley, W.
If it be not in accordance with your ideas of the summum bonum, remember that it is not his.
From The Gay Adventure A Romance by Bird, Richard
However, at last we were both too eager to enjoy the summum bonum of earthly felicity to give up much time to the preliminaries.
From Laura Middleton; Her Brother and her Lover by Anonymous
She must bare her body of all sorts of ornaments, even the iron and the gold bangles, which once constituted the summum bonum of her life.
From The Hindoos as they Are A Description of the Manners, Customs and the Inner Life of Hindoo Society in Bengal by Bose, Shib Chunder
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