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Definition of Magnum opus
1. Noun. A great work of art or literature.
Definition of Magnum opus
1. Noun. A great work of literature or art, a masterpiece. ¹
2. Noun. The best, most popular, or most renowned achievement of an author or artist, representing his major life effort. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Magnum Opus
Literary usage of Magnum opus
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Young Boswell: Chapters on James Boswell, the Biographer, Based Largely on by Chauncey Brewster Tinker (1922)
"... CHAPTER X THE magnum opus THERE is a certain kind of reader who vexes himself
and teases the critic with the question whether the author of a great ..."
2. The Promptorium parvulorum: The first English-Latin dictionary by Galfridus, Anthony Lawson Mayhew (1908)
"The only author with this name that occurs in Bale is Laurentius Cunde, who
wrote ' magnum opus Anglico ..."
3. Archibald Constable and His Literary Correspondents: A Memorial by Thomas Constable (1873)
"... and my father's reply in acknowledgment—First suggestion of magnum opus— Death
of Mr. Thomas Scott—Dialogue on Popular Superstitions—Letter from my ..."
4. The Love Affairs of Some Famous Men by Edward John Hardy (1897)
"ANCIENT AUTHORITIES FORBID THE BANNS—MONTAIGNE MARRIES AGAINST HIS WILL—LITERARY
WORK DONE AT HOME, HENCE THOSE TEARS—THE magnum OpUS UNAPPRECIATED—" ..."
5. A Window in Thrums by James Matthew Barrie (1898)
"CHAPTER X. A magnum opus. Two Bibles, a volume of sermons by the learned Dr.
Isaac Barrow, a few numbers of the Cheap Magazine that had strayed from ..."
6. Lives of Alchemystical Philosophers by Arthur Edward Waite (1888)
"INTRODUCTORY ESSAY ON THE TRUE PRINCIPLES AND NATURE OF THE magnum opus, AND ON
ITS RELATION TO SPIRITUAL CHEMISTRY. THOSE unfamiliar with modern alchemical ..."
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