Both Uses
maxim
in
Middlemarch
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- They knew Peter's maxim, that money was a good egg, and should be laid in a warm nest.†
Chpt 3 *
- It was a maxim about Middlemarch, and regarded as self-evident, that good meat should have good drink, which last Dagley interpreted as plenty of table ale well followed up by rum-and-water.†
Chpt 4
Definitions:
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(1)
(maxim) a short saying that expresses a general truth or principle
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)