Both Uses of
axiom
in
The House of Mirth
- My aunt is full of copy-book axioms, but they were all meant to apply to conduct in the early fifties.†
Chpt 1.1 *
- If he did not often act on the accepted social axiom that a man may go where he pleases, it was because he had long since learned that his pleasures were mainly to be found in a small group of the like-minded.†
Chpt 1.12
Definition:
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(axiom) something assumed to be self-evident