Both Uses of
panacea
in
The Screwtape Letters
- This impossibility He calls love, and this same monotonous panacea can be detected under all He does and even all He is—or claims to be.†
Chpt 18 *
- He has to be a "great man" in the modern sense of the word—one standing at the terminus of some centrifugal and unbalanced line of thought—a crank vending a panacea.†
Chpt 23
Definitions:
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(1)
(panacea) something that's supposed to solve all problems
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) meaning too rare to warrant focus:
In Greek mythology, Panacea is the goddess of healing. In older use, it often refers to something that heals all medical conditions.