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Plot's pinnacle
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climax
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Word definitions for climax in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1835, "to reach the highest point," from climax (n.). Related: Climaxed ; climaxing .
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
In rhetoric , a climax (, klîmax , "staircase" or "ladder") is a figure of speech in which words , phrases , or clauses are arranged in order of increasing importance. In its use with clauses, it is also sometimes known as auxesis ( "growth"). __NOTOC__
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
I. noun EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES ▪ A parade through the streets marks the climax of the festival. ▪ The opera reaches its climax with Violetta's death in the third act. EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Eliot has been careful to avoid any sort of sentimental religiosity, ...
Usage examples of climax.
Gradually, the French became more and more intransigent and this climaxed in 1292 when the papal throne became vacant and the French and Italian factions in the College of Cardinals cancelled each other out to the extent that they wrangled for two years without reaching agreement: no candidate achieved the required two-thirds majority.
That was because his father had known the laws of engineering and had opened the sluices at the head of the aqueduct exactly eighteen hours before the ceremony was due to reach its climax, and had ridden back into the city faster than the water could chase him.
The sensation was intensely arousing and she felt herself being quickly propelled rapidly to another climax.
The climax came on May 1, when Liverpool and the Mersey were attacked for seven successive nights.
When the Enchanted Globe reached the platform at the top, the whole band joined the cimbalom to blare a rousing climax and bring the audience out of its stupefaction to a clamor of applause.
Neutrally Buoyant First Order Ubiquitous Climax Clade Gas-Giant Dwellers, to grant them a still more painfully precise specification - were large creatures of immense age who lived within the deliriously complex and topologically vast civilisation of great antiquity which was distributed throughout the cloud layers wrapping the enormous gas-giant planet, a habitat that was as stupendous in scale as it was changeable in aerography.
Some one more capable than Detectives Kurman and Cleer would be needed when that climax came.
I believe that is your motive here, with three cocks climaxing in you.
I heard a strange sound and feared we had been discovered, but it was only the party climaxing again.
At this moment they are building toward orgasm, except for Arleigh, who is climaxing continually.
The dominatrix fingered the cleft of the climaxing girl, probing the hot sphincter and launching Chloe into renewed spasms of delight.
Quickly he thrust forward again, once more and the next moment he was climaxing as deeply as Kerry.
At the climax, the hero beat the priest to death with his own crucifer, and prepared to welcome Them as They came.
The idea of a full day of constant climax excites me perhaps more than it does you.
Otterly here and all the other observers we have consulted say that, as a matter of fact, you went up to the dolmen at the moment of climax and stood motionless behind it.