ultimate meaning
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ultimate
adjective[before noun]
uk/ˈʌl.tɪ.mət/us/ˈʌl.tə.mət/
most extreme or important because either the original or final, or the best ...
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meaning
noun
uk/ˈmiː.nɪŋ/us/ˈmiː.nɪŋ/
The meaning of something is what it expresses ...
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The problem was part of the epistemological difficulties in doing any kind of history, questioning as it does theultimatemeaningof the written word.
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Four types of "healing connections" involving a sense of bonding to self, others, the phenomenal world, andultimatemeaning, respectively, were identified.
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This was theultimatemeaningof the demand for a governmental orientation.
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Chapters 4 and 5 describe the two spiritual tasks of ageing, the search forultimatemeaningand how we respond to it.
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This last claim is bound to be controversial and, like any attempt to fix an "ultimatemeaning," is basically unprovable.
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Although for both languages theultimatemeaningentails being on a train and traveling on it, the conceptualizations are different, and this is reflected in different lexicalizations.
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Through a web of metaphors based on light, the text consistently marks a personallydefined aesthetic ideal ofultimatemeaningas an ideological balm for gender subordination.
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Itsultimatemeaningwill be for the courts to decide.
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That phrase achieves itsultimatemeaningin the buying and selling of a human being, which is a most degrading concept.
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When everything can be turned into a commodity for financial gain, it seems that nothing other than money has anyultimatemeaning.
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That policy, in itsultimatemeaning, simply amounts to putting people into work in one place, at the expense of putting other people out of work somewhere else.
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What is theultimatemeaningof man?
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The magisterium of religion extends over questions ofultimatemeaningand moral value.
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One description of spirituality is the self's search forultimatemeaningthrough an independent comprehension of the sacred.
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It is theultimatemeaningof the art of fencing.
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For me, the existence of all this complexity and awareness and intent and beauty, and my ability to apprehend it, serves as theultimatemeaningand the ultimate value.
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Barthes saw the notion of the author, or authorial authority, in the criticism of literary text as the forced projection of anultimatemeaningof the text.
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