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Climax

noun

The highest point of anything conceived of as growing or developing or unfolding. Synonym: flood tide. "In the flood tide of his success"

The decisive moment in a novel or play. Synonym: culmination.

The moment of most intense pleasure in sexual intercourse. Synonyms: coming, orgasm, sexual climax.

The most severe stage of a disease.

Arrangement of clauses in ascending order of forcefulness.

verb

End, especially to reach a final or climactic stage. Synonym: culminate.

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"Climax" Quotes from Famous Books

... The climax of "Bleak House" is the pursuit of Lady Dedlock, and the finding of the fugitive, cold and dead, with one arm around a rail of the dark little graveyard where they buried the law-copyist, "Nemo," and where poor Jo, the crossing-sweeper, ...

— Seeing Europe with Famous Authors, Volume I. - Great Britain and Ireland • Various

... in the next scene is necessarily slight. The discovery of the murder impels every one save the protagonist to action, but Macbeth finds time even at the climax of excitement to coin Hamlet-words ...

— The Man Shakespeare • Frank Harris

... was repeated from another, and another. The sibilant sound spread round the house; it swelled into a sinister storm of hisses and boos. The light faded out of the dancer's eyes, the smile from her lips; and as the tumult of disapprobation rose to a deafening climax the curtain was rung down, and Lola rushed weeping from the stage. Her career as a dancer, in England, had ...

— Love affairs of the Courts of Europe • Thornton Hall

... through small towns and the children's delight and amazement increased. And when at noon the climax came, and they all went forward into the dining-car, they were one and all silent. No words great enough were in their vocabulary to express ...

— Suzanna Stirs the Fire • Emily Calvin Blake

... in this sense the first two chapters. We put quite aside a host of points of profound interest in detail, and ask ourselves only what is the broad surface, the drift and total, of the message here. As to its climax, it is JESUS CHRIST, our "merciful and faithful High Priest" (ii. 17). As to the steps that lead up to the climax, they are a presentation of the personal glory of Jesus Christ, as God the Son of God, as ...

— Messages from the Epistle to the Hebrews • Handley C.G. Moule

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