Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

magnum opus

magnum opus (mag"num ō"pus) , noun

1.
A great work of art or literature.
2.
The greatest work or achievement of a particular artist, writer, or other individual.
Inspired by this milieu, [Max Stirner] wrote his magnum opus The Ego and Its Own, which was published in November 1844. — Svein Nyberg (The Small Max Stirner Web Page, 1988 [https://web.archive.org/web/19981207014247/http://www.math.uio.no/~solan/stirner/stirner.html])