summum bonum
the highest or chief good.
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How to use summum bonum in a sentence
This new emotional centre offered the human summum bonum: release from oneself.
The Daughters of Danaus | Mona CairdIt had been passed from one to another before we made port that the Hotel Bellevue was the summum bonum of Hati.
Gardens of the Caribbees, v. 1/2 | Ida May Hill StarrThere are yet other arguments remaining (continues Sokrates) which show that pleasure cannot be the summum bonum.
This fulness of life has been the summum bonum, the highest good, which mankind has sighed for in every age and clime.
Ancient Pagan and Modern Christian Symbolism | Thomas InmanLife was at last a thing much to be desired, and the Giver of life was good, and the summum bonum was deathless love.
Audrey | Mary Johnston
British Dictionary definitions for summum bonum
/ Latin (ˈsʊmʊm ˈbɒnʊm) /
the principle of goodness in which all moral values are included or from which they are derived; highest or supreme good
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