altaltissimo

Definitions

The highest point of something; the pinnacle or apex.

countable, literary, rare, uncountable

Examples

“Then one shall propose⟳ (in a speech, curt Tuscan, / Sober, expurgate, spare⟳ of an "issimo,") / Ending our half-told tale of Cambuscan, / Turning the Bell-tower's altaltissimo.”

“Gordon, too, carried plenty in his hands, but principally he went for his heart's sake, and that will take⟳ a man to altaltissimo.”

“Beatrice Davis's office, a mere attic above Angus and Robertson's bookshop at 89 Castlereagh Street, is at the altaltissimo of a perilous steep of strait wooden stairs.”

“Persons born under this number⟳ always rise⟳ high in their respective professions. To achieve⟳ summum bonum, the highest altaltissimo in their profession, is their main objective.”

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