AXIOM in a Sentence

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For AXIOM, below is one of 5 sentences:
All the axioms which had served him as points of support all his life long, had crumbled away in the presence of this man.

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 Meanings and Examples of AXIOM
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
axiom
 n.  self-evident truth requiring no proof
Classic Sentence:
1  You know, Scarlett, money ill come by never comes to good and this house is proof of the axiom.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLIX
2  Although Oliver had been brought up by philosophers, he was not theoretically acquainted with the beautiful axiom that self-preservation is the first law of nature.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER X
3  My aunt is full of copy-book axioms, but they were all meant to apply to conduct in the early fifties.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 1
4  All the axioms which had served him as points of support all his life long, had crumbled away in the presence of this man.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER I—JAVERT
Example Sentence:
1  Before a student can begin to think along the lines of Euclidean geometry, he must accept certain principle or axiom.