summum bonum
noun
sum·mum bo·num
ˌsu̇-məm-ˈbō-nəm 
ˌsü-,
ˌsə-
: the supreme good from which all others are derived
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Or with the uncontested idea that a rising income conveys you ever closer to the summum bonum?
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Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 16 Oct. 2023
For champions of progress, who often cite painless dentistry as the summum bonum, the surgery of the premodern period is nothing but a vile species of Grand Guignol.
—Will Self, Harper’s Magazine , 28 Sep. 2022
As both President Reagan and Nikita Khrushchev understood, in a world where material well-being has replaced more traditional conceptions of the summum bonum, the battlefield is first and foremost at home.
—Mathis Bitton, National Review, 12 Aug. 2020
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Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 16 Oct. 2023
For champions of progress, who often cite painless dentistry as the summum bonum, the surgery of the premodern period is nothing but a vile species of Grand Guignol.
—Will Self, Harper’s Magazine , 28 Sep. 2022
As both President Reagan and Nikita Khrushchev understood, in a world where material well-being has replaced more traditional conceptions of the summum bonum, the battlefield is first and foremost at home.
—Mathis Bitton, National Review, 12 Aug. 2020
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“Summum bonum.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/summum%20bonum. Accessed 5 Nov. 2024.
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