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Definition of Culminating
1. culminate [v] - See also: culminate
Lexicographical Neighbors of Culminating
Literary usage of Culminating
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Industrial Resources, Etc., of the Southern and Western States by James Dunwoody Brownson De Bow (1852)
"To this culminating ridge there Georgia, and the eastern portion of Ten- | is
... Rising in the by the axes, culminating ridges and moun- outlines and hill ..."
2. The Conduct of War: A Short Treatise on Its Most Important Branches and by Colmar Goltz, George Francis Leverson (1908)
"An able General will at once recognize when this culminating point, ... Should the
culminating point be reached too soon, ie before the desired peace is ..."
3. On War by Carl von Clausewitz, James John Graham, Frederic Natusch Maude (1908)
"CHAPTER V culminating POINT OF THE ATTACK THE success of the attack is the result
of a present superiority of force ..."
4. The Geographical Journal by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain). (1895)
"Afterwards I visited it several times, '•-.-..' ... •--.--tf/^-V- ^s^^ffi^^^"
I "'"". «- ••-•»-«&.£ ,•.-; - . at - _SL^. THE FIVE culminating 1'EAKS OF ..."
5. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1901)
"... ACCOMPANIED BY LEUK^EMIC LESIONS AND PIGMENTATION OF THE SKIN, culminating IN
STREPTOCOCCUS INFECTION. ..."
6. Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland: A Survey of Scottish Topography, Staistical by Francis Hindes Groome (1882)
"It extends about 7 miles from N to S ; has greater breadth but less height and
less sublimity than the middle and eastern ridges, culminating at 2345 feet ..."
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