Culminating
[kʌl'mineitiŋ]
Definition
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Culminate
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Examples
- It was the final and culminating grace of a mature experience of life. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Here we do but mention them as details in the worried life of this culminating emperor. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- And so on to the culminating moral, that the highest pay, the utmost importance, the freest expenditure, must be allowed to military gentlemen. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- When he had said it, he took a culminating pinch of snuff, and put his box in his pocket. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- The plot was but thickening; the wonder but culminating. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- The name of Averroes (Ibn-rushd) of Cordoba (1126-1198), stands out as that of the culminating influence of Arab philosophy upon European thought. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
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