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Pinnacle

noun

(architecture) a slender upright spire at the top of a buttress of tower.

The highest level or degree attainable; the highest stage of development. Synonyms: acme, elevation, height, meridian, peak, summit, superlative, tiptop, top. "The artist's gifts are at their acme" , "At the height of her career" , "The peak of perfection" , "Summer was at its peak" , "...catapulted Einstein to the pinnacle of fame" , "The summit of his ambition" , "So many highest superlatives achieved by man" , "At the top of his profession"

A lofty peak.

verb

(past & past part. pinnacled; pres. part. pinnacling)

Surmount with a pinnacle.

Raise on or as if on a pinnacle.

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... of reason will be unheard; the passions only will bear sway; famine, distress, havoc, and dismay will spread around; hatred, violence, war, and bloodshed will be the infallible consequence, and from the pinnacle of happiness, peace, refinement, and social advantage, we shall be hurled once more into a profounder abyss of misery, want, and barbarism than ever, by the sole operation of the principle of population!"—Such is a brief abstract of the argument of the Essay. Can any thing be ...

— The Spirit of the Age - Contemporary Portraits • William Hazlitt

... the first encounter after the death of their redoubtable chief the Carlists met with defeat. The decline in the fortunes of Don Carlos had begun. One man had lifted them from the lowest ebb almost to the pinnacle of success. With the fall of Zumalacarregui Carlism received a death-blow in Spain, for there is little hope that one of this dynasty of claimants will ever reach ...

— Historical Tales - The Romance of Reality - Volume VII • Charles Morris

... Coleridge or Byron. Almost all questions of criticism labor under this difficulty, that in the end they are questions of taste. You or I were so made in the beginning that the so-called romantic school or the so-called classical school seems to us to have reached the pinnacle of art; and all the argument in the world cannot make us over again in this respect. Every question which in the end involves questions of aesthetic taste is as futile to argue as questions ...

— The Making of Arguments • J. H. Gardiner

... almost impassable barrier. The mountain range, with its moon-shaped windings, walls off the accessible parts of the plain. There is but one entrance, of which we are the masters. My hut is built on another point, which uplifts a lofty pinnacle on the summit, so that this plain is outspread before the gaze, and from the height I can catch a glimpse of the river flowing round, which to my fancy affords no less delight than the view of the Strymore as you look from Amphipolis. ...

— The Development of the Feeling for Nature in the Middle Ages and - Modern Times • Alfred Biese

... replied Jose, "this paper says that from here one should be able to see, close at hand, a large pinnacle of rock in the shape of a pyramid. It is from that pinnacle that the bearings of the treasure- cave are to be taken and—and I can see no such ...

— Under the Chilian Flag - A Tale of War between Chili and Peru • Harry Collingwood

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