| 单词 | chiefest good |
| 释义 | > as lemmaschiefest good 9. chief good, †chiefest good: used to translate Latin summum bonum. ΘΚΠ the mind > goodness and badness > quality of being good > [noun] > highest good goodeOE highest goodeOE sovereigna1340 summum bonum1563 supreme good1601 chief good1663 kalon1749 1663 A. Cowley Ess. in Verse & Prose (1669) 117 When Epicurus to the World had taught, That pleasure was the cheifest Good. 1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost xi. 493 As thir chief good . View more context for this quotation 1668 R. Steele Husbandmans Calling (1672) v. 110 Loss of goods is not the loss of the chief Good. 1669 T. Gale Court of Gentiles: Pt. I i. i. 2 Desires after some one Chiefest Good. 1729 Bp. J. Butler Serm. xiv, in Wks. (1874) II. 193 Knowledge..cannot be the chief good of man. 1795 W. Roscoe Life Lorenzo de' Medici I. iii. 161 In what this chief good consists has not been universally agreed upon. 1806 A. Knox Remains I. 31 Reason..informed the heathen sages that there was a chief good of man. 1849 D. Thomas Crisis of Being (1850) iii. 50 Personal religion is the chief good of man. 1869 M. Arnold Culture & Anarchy (1882) 212 A good in itself, one of the chiefest of goods. < as lemmas |
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