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 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 Richard Bird
It destroys all moral and natural good which comes within its influence, and madly proclaims itself the summum bonum for mankind!
From An Address to Men of Science Calling Upon Them to Stand Forward and Vindicate the Truth.... by Richard Carlile
At this time of life too, tranquillity is the summum bonum.
From Inquiry Into the Origin and Course of Political Parties in the United States by Martin Van Buren
If to sell all is the summum bonum, go, see the broker now and have done with it.'
From Windyridge by W. Riley
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