Plural of maxim

regular plural

The plural of maxim is maxims.

Forms of maxim

Those maxims lurch through my head like rivers of lava.2024 May 6, Lt Flops, “Pursuing Ghosts, Part II”, in SCP Foundation, archived from the original on 02 Jun 2024
We have observed that implicatures are a standard strategy for overcoming apparent floutings of the maxims of quality.2013, Scott Brewer, Precedents, Statutes, and Analysis of Legal Concepts. From the entry flouting
"Better than a poke in the eye with a sharp stick," to borrow one of the former Mayor's favorite maxims.1994 October 7, Todd S. Purdum, “The 1994 Campaign: After Wary Weeks, Dinkins Announces Support for Cuomo”, in New York Times, retrieved…. From the entry better than a poke in the eye with a sharp stick
Bureaucracy too, in education as elsewhere (perhaps especially in education) was prone to pedantocracy and to slow strangulation in the toils of its own immutable maxims.1980, F[rancis] W[illiam] Garforth, “Conclusion”, in Educative Democracy: John Stuart Mill on Education in Society (University of Hull…. From the entry pedantocracy
They are chippings and basketings of maxims and quotations, and of anecdotes, often classical, put together inductively, or rather by "simple enumeration" of the pros and cons.1910, Hugh Chisholm, The Encyclopaedia Britannica (page 627). From the entry basketing

noun A self-evident axiom or premise; a pithy expression of a general principle or rule.
noun A precept; a succinct statement or observation of a rule of conduct or moral teaching.

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