2. Verb. (third-person singular of climax) ¹
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Definition of Climaxes
1. climax [v] - See also: climax
Lexicographical Neighbors of Climaxes
Literary usage of Climaxes
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Art of Playwriting: Being a Practical Treatise on the Elements of by Alfred Hennequin (1890)
"Multiple climaxes. — The rage for strong situations, so prevalent at the present
day, has led to the construction of plays in which there are two or more ..."
2. The Broad-sclerophyll Vegetation of California: An Ecological Study of the by William Skinner Cooper (1922)
"THE HABITATS OF THE TWO climaxes CONTRASTED. The topic that naturally follows is
comparison of the respective habitats of the two broad-sclerophyll climaxes ..."
3. The Alphabet of Rhetoric: With a Chapter on Elocution by Rossiter Johnson (1903)
"... variety of climaxes and cadences. There are three odes that rank above all
others in our language —Wordsworth's on Intimations of Immortality, ..."
4. The Book of Table-talk by Charles MacFarlane, James Robinson Planché (1836)
"THE PREACHER OF climaxes. THE late Rev. Robert Hall was remarkably happy and apt
at hitting off in conversation, by a few bold strokes dashed occasionally ..."
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