All 4 Uses
maxim
in
A Bend in the River
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- All along the road were big boards about ten feet high, uniformly painted, each with a separate saying or maxim of the President.†
p. 248.1
- Portraits, maxims, occasional statues of the African madonna —they continued all the way to the hotel.†
p. 248.2 *maxims = short sayings that express general truths or principles
- There was to me an element of pathos in those maxims, portraits and statues, in this wish of a man of the bush to make himself big, and setting about it in such a crude way.†
p. 248.4
- The posts that supported the President's maxim boards were often set in bare clay.†
p. 249.9
Definitions:
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(1)
(maxim) a short saying that expresses a general truth or principle
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)