Hobbes
Americannoun
noun
Other Word Forms
- Hobbesian noun
Example Sentences
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"It's like if the Manhattan Project announced the nuclear bomb within a cute little Calvin and Hobbes cartoon."
From Barron's • Apr. 10, 2026
Some historians find its origins in the secular individualism of the 18th-century Enlightenment, or in the earlier political thought of John Locke or Thomas Hobbes.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 24, 2025
He quotes the philosopher Thomas Hobbes that our lives have been “nasty, brutish and short.”
From Slate • Jul. 28, 2025
In the seventeenth century, Thomas Hobbes pegged laughter as the companion of scorn.
From Salon • Nov. 18, 2024
Not from Hobbes, whose key discussions of the subject were at this point available only in English.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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