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Culmination   /kˌəlmənˈeɪʃən/   Listen
Culmination

noun
1.
A final climactic stage.  Synonym: apogee.
2.
(astronomy) a heavenly body's highest celestial point above an observer's horizon.
3.
The decisive moment in a novel or play.  Synonym: climax.
4.
A concluding action.  Synonyms: closing, completion, mop up, windup.





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... forms of vertebrate life. The fishes are followed by amphibians—then reptiles, then birds. The first mammal to appear was the lowest organized of all—the marsupials. And we have seen the sudden increase of mammalian life in Tertiary times. We notice, in all the divisions of life, a beginning, a culmination, and a decline. There has never been such a growth of flowerless plants as in the Paleozoic, and flowering plants probably culminated in the Miocene. The same rule holds good for the animal world also. As man is the most highly organized of all the animals, we can not hope to find any ...
— The Prehistoric World - Vanished Races • E. A. Allen
... rock upon thy towery top All throats that gurgle sweet! All starry culmination drop Balm-dews ...
— The Early Poems of Alfred Lord Tennyson • Tennyson
... read a sort of programme of the species of romance which he should think it worth while to write—a species which he contrasted in strong terms with the productions of illustrious but overrated authors in this branch. Pepin's romance was to present the splendours of the Roman Empire at the culmination of its grandeur, when decadence was spiritually but not visibly imminent: it was to show the workings of human passion in the most pregnant and exalted of human circumstances, the designs of statesmen, the interfusion of philosophies, the rural relaxation ...
— Impressions of Theophrastus Such • George Eliot
... than a word about the highest aspect which this third of our commandments takes, 'His sheep follow Him'—'leaving us an example that we should follow in His steps,' that is the culmination of the walking 'with,' and 'before,' and 'after' God which these Old Testament saints were partially practising. All is gathered into the one great word, 'He that saith he abideth in Him ought himself also so to walk even as ...
— Expositions of Holy Scripture - Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus and Numbers • Alexander Maclaren
... the culmination of this quarrel occurred while the queens were bathing in the river: in the Nibelungen Lied it happened on the steps leading up to the door ...
— The Story of Siegfried • James Baldwin


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