英语词汇“highest good”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

highest good n. (chiefly with the) the most important or pre-eminent good; esp. the ultimate goal according to which values and priorities are established in an ethical system (cf. summum bonum n.).In early use frequently spec. applied to God.

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eOE Metres of Boethius (partly from transcript of damaged MS) (2009) xx. 46 Eart þe selfa [sc. God] þæt hehste good.

lOE King Ælfred tr. St. Augustine Soliloquies (Vitell.) (1922) i. 42 Hu ne habbe wyt nu genoh sweotole gereaht þæt wisdom ys þæt hehste good?

a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) I. ii. xii. 77 Þey [sc. dominaciones] neuer turneth hem to vanite but alwey to þe hiȝest god.

?1535 tr. M. Luther Treat. Good Workes sig. h.ii Whether he trusted faythfully in the name of god or no, and allowed it for ye hyghest good that is or no.

1597 H. Lok Ecclesiastes sig. Aiiij^v Ecclesiastes the preacher..instituteth thy manly thoughts to the inquisition of the highest good.

1678 R. Cudworth tr. Simplicius in True Intellect. Syst. Universe i. iv. 566 The..Highest of Souls..are..so near a kin to that Highest Good of all, that they do Naturally and Indivulsively cleave to the same.

1796 Theol. Mag. Mar. 372/2 Would he not view his greatest happiness to be his highest good; and feel himself under obligation to promote it?

1882 H. C. Merivale Faucit of Balliol II. i. xix. 43 Which is likely..to become before long the highest good of these worrisome days.

1954 Compar. Lit. 6 204 Daniello, more a preacher than a poet, was concerned with teaching us quietly, in a predicatorial trichotomy, that Heaven is the seat of the highest good.

2009 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 26 Mar. a23/2 A peculiarly Madagascan concept, fihavanana, which places the highest good on maintaining existing social ties.

单词	highest good
释义	> as lemmas highest good highest good n. (chiefly with the) the most important or pre-eminent good; esp. the ultimate goal according to which values and priorities are established in an ethical system (cf. summum bonum n.).In early use frequently spec. applied to God. ΚΠ eOE Metres of Boethius (partly from transcript of damaged MS) (2009) xx. 46 Eart þe selfa [sc. God] þæt hehste good. lOE King Ælfred tr. St. Augustine Soliloquies (Vitell.) (1922) i. 42 Hu ne habbe wyt nu genoh sweotole gereaht þæt wisdom ys þæt hehste good? a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) I. ii. xii. 77 Þey [sc. dominaciones] neuer turneth hem to vanite but alwey to þe hiȝest god. ?1535 tr. M. Luther Treat. Good Workes sig. h.ii Whether he trusted faythfully in the name of god or no, and allowed it for ye hyghest good that is or no. 1597 H. Lok Ecclesiastes sig. Aiiij^v Ecclesiastes the preacher..instituteth thy manly thoughts to the inquisition of the highest good. 1678 R. Cudworth tr. Simplicius in True Intellect. Syst. Universe i. iv. 566 The..Highest of Souls..are..so near a kin to that Highest Good of all, that they do Naturally and Indivulsively cleave to the same. 1796 Theol. Mag. Mar. 372/2 Would he not view his greatest happiness to be his highest good; and feel himself under obligation to promote it? 1882 H. C. Merivale Faucit of Balliol II. i. xix. 43 Which is likely..to become before long the highest good of these worrisome days. 1954 Compar. Lit. 6 204 Daniello, more a preacher than a poet, was concerned with teaching us quietly, in a predicatorial trichotomy, that Heaven is the seat of the highest good. 2009 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 26 Mar. a23/2 A peculiarly Madagascan concept, fihavanana, which places the highest good on maintaining existing social ties. extracted from highestadj.n.adv. < as lemmas
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