Bentham

[ ben-thuhm, -tuhm ]

/ ˈbɛn θəm, -təm /

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noun

Jeremy, 1748–1832, English jurist and philosopher.

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How to use Bentham in a sentence

Reading Bentham was a good warning but Solzhenitsyn was a better friend.
Reading Prison Novels In Prison|Daniel Genis|May 24, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Jeremy Bentham seemed an especially unpleasant fellow, certainly no friend of mine.
Reading Prison Novels In Prison|Daniel Genis|May 24, 2014|DAILY BEAST
He was an amiable man, as all the Benthams were; and was the only Bentham of the family that was not in orders.
A History of the Cambridge University Press|S. C. Roberts
A chain of the former kind was termed by Bentham a self-corroborative chain of evidence; the second, a self-infirmative chain.
A System of Logic: Ratiocinative and Inductive|John Stuart Mill

The prison system was no longer in want of a Howard or a Bentham.
The English Utilitarians, Volume II (of 3)|Leslie Stephen
Bentham was the source of philosophy, and Mill only his prophet.
The English Utilitarians, Volume II (of 3)|Leslie Stephen
Bentham's influence, again, in bringing about the change is undeniable.
The English Utilitarians, Volume II (of 3)|Leslie Stephen

British Dictionary definitions for Bentham

Bentham

/ (ˈbɛnθəm) /

noun

Jeremy . 1748–1832, British philosopher and jurist: a founder of utilitarianism. His works include A Fragment on Government (1776) and Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation (1789)

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