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Capstone

noun

A final touch; a crowning achievement; a culmination. Synonyms: copestone, finishing touch.

A stone that forms the top of wall or building. Synonyms: copestone, coping stone, stretcher.

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... lights, in this great Work unto which we are now called, and wherein we already finde many and potent adversaries: that seeing the plummet is now in the hands of our Zerubbabels, all mountaines may become plains, and they may bring forth the capstone of the Lords House with shoutings, crying, Grace, grace unto it: and that how weak and contemptible builders soever we be, the Lord would enable us to build with them, that none may have cause to despise the day of our small beginnings, nor ...

— The Acts Of The General Assemblies of the Church of Scotland

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... view, free from temptation, and free from the tongue of scandal, he decided to live in the world, and still not be of it. To this end he climbed to the top of a marble column, sixty feet high, and there on the capstone he lived a ...

— Little Journeys To The Homes Of Great Teachers • Elbert Hubbard

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Words linked to "Capstone" : stone, wall, touch