summum malum

English

Noun

summum malum (plural summa mala)

  1. (philosophy) The greatest evil.
    Antonym: summum bonum
    • 1998, Richard J. Ellis, The Dark Side of the Left: Illiberal Egalitarianism in America (page 40)
      The "liberalism of fear," as Shklar tags it, is grounded in an appreciation that cruelty is the summum malum, the worst thing that human beings can inflict upon one another.
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