Both Uses of
culminate
in
A Tale of Two Cities
- When he had said it, he took a culminating pinch of snuff, and put his box in his pocket.†
Chpt 2.9 *
- He knew very well, that in his horror of the deed which had culminated the bad deeds and bad reputation of the old family house, in his resentful suspicions of his uncle, and in the aversion with which his conscience regarded the crumbling fabric that he was supposed to uphold, he had acted imperfectly.†
Chpt 2.24
Definition:
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(culminate) reach the highest or most decisive or final stage