Meaning of Climax | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A village in the Rural Municipality of Lone Tree No. 18, Saskatchewan, Canada.
2. A rhetorical device in which a series is arranged in ascending order.
   countable, uncountable
3. A number of places in the United States:
4. An unincorporated community and mining location in Lake County, Colorado.
5. An instance of such an ascending series.
   countable, obsolete, uncountable
6. A small town in Decatur County, Georgia.
7. The culmination of a narrative's rising action, the turning point.
   countable, uncountable
8. A minor city in Greenwood County, Kansas.
9. A culmination or acme: the last term in an ascending series, particularly
   countable, often, uncountable
10. An unincorporated community in Rockcastle County, Kentucky.
11. A culmination or acme: the last term in an ascending series
    countable, often, rhetoric, uncountable
12. The final term of a rhetorical climax.
    countable, often, rhetoric, uncountable
13. A village and township in Kalamazoo County, Michigan.
14. The culmination of ecological development, whereby species are in equilibrium with their environment.
    countable, often, uncountable
15. The culmination of sexual pleasure, an orgasm.
    countable, euphemistic, often, uncountable
16. A minor city in Polk County, Minnesota.
17. A hamlet in Greene County, New York.
18. An unincorporated community in Guilford County and Randolph County, North Carolina.
19. An unincorporated community in Morrow County, Ohio.
20. An unincorporated community in Jackson County, Oregon.
21. An unincorporated community in Armstrong County, Pennsylvania.
22. An unincorporated community in Collin County, Texas.
23. An unincorporated community in Pittsylvania County, Virginia.

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Examples

“Ye haue a figure which as well by his Greeke and Latine originals […] may be called the marching figure […] and goeth as it were by ſtrides or paces; it may aſwell by called the clyming figure, for Clymax is as much to ſay as a ladder,[…]”

“Climax, by steps advancing, onward goes Higher and still more high to an impassion'd close.”

“[…]Expressions for the whole Climax of sensibility[…]”

“The Begums' ministers, on the contrary, to extort from them the disclosure of the place which concealed the treasures, were, […] after being fettered and imprisoned, led out on to a scaffold, and this array of terrours proving unavailing, the meek tempered Middleton, as a dernier resort, menaced them with a confinement in the fortress of Chunargar. Thus, my lords, was a British garrison made the climax of cruelties!”

“As a trafficker in climaxes and thrills and characterization and wonderful dialogue and suspense and confrontations, I had outlined the Dresden story many times.”

“In the accomplishment of this, they frequently reach the climax of absurdity.”

“When he adds epithets of praise, his climax is ‘so English’.”

“The succession of associations leading to a climax represents the process of adjustment to the conditions of stress, and the climax represents a condition of relative equilibrium. Climax associations[…] are the resultants of certain climatic, geological[…] conditions.”

“In many cases the man's climax comes so swiftly that the woman's reactions are not nearly ready.”

“What's the use of bringing some high schooler to climax?”

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