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Magnum opus   /mˈægnəm ˈoʊpəs/   Listen
Magnum opus

noun
1.
A great work of art or literature.





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"Magnum opus" Quotes from Famous Books



... prompt benevolence of character, which may be thought to compensate for his grosser failings. His reputation as a bibliomaniac is fully recorded in the anecdote mentioned at p. 234, ante. His "magnum opus," the Scriptores Britanniae, has already been noticed with sufficient minuteness; vide p. 31, ante. It has not escaped severe animadversion. Francis Thynne tells us that Bale has "mistaken infynyte thinges in that booke de Scriptoribus Anglie, being for the most part the ...
— Bibliomania; or Book-Madness - A Bibliographical Romance • Thomas Frognall Dibdin


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