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  • What distinguishes Maximin from the more aggregative views is not a more substantive commitment to equality, but a view about the separateness of persons that refuses to see the poor condition of one person as “compensated for” by augmenting the riches of another, already well off.

    Inequality: Does Anyone Really Care? 2007

  • In his love for a youth whom he called Maximin, George believed to have found the meaning of the Platonic eros, which he and his friends defended against the bourgeois notion of “Platonic love.”

    Dictionary of the History of Ideas ERNST MORITZ MANASSE 1968

  • Maximin is stopped on his road near Aquileia, by the want of provisions, and by the melting of the snows: he begins the siege of Aquileia at the end of April.

    The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire 1206

  • Maximin is a public enemy! may his enmity soon expire with him, and may we long enjoy the prudence and felicity of Gordian the father, the valor and constancy of

    The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire 1206

  • Next you’ve got the view that I suspect most self-described egalitarians actually hold, which (again borrowing from Rawls) we’ll call the Maximin View.

    Inequality: Does Anyone Really Care? 2007

  • "Maximin," repeated the Barbarian, trying to catch the Roman word.

    The Last of the Legions and Other Tales of Long Ago Arthur Conan Doyle 1894

  • "Maximin," repeated the Barbarian, trying to catch the Roman word.

    The Last Galley Impressions and Tales Arthur Conan Doyle 1894

  • My daughter's concern throws me back in time to when I used to stroll her, as a six-month-old, through the village of St. Maximin.

    fifille - French Word-A-Day 2009

  • That year he went on a trip to France and attended a cooking demonstration in Cannes by the chef Jacques Maximin.

    Putting on Airs Moira Hodgson 2010

  • I was lounging on my favorite bar stool one night in my hangout in the Moroccan part of your village of St. Maximin ...

    Jules 2009

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