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noun

Climax n.

Upward movement; steady increase; gradation; ascent.

(Rhet.) A figure in which the parts of a sentence or paragraph are so arranged that each succeeding one rises above its predecessor in impressiveness. ""Tribulation worketh patience, patience experience, and experience hope" a happy climax."

The highest point; the greatest degree. "We must look higher for the climax of earthly good."

To cap the climax, to surpass everything, as in excellence or in absurdity. (Colloq.)

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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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