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Definition
the highest point
in various senses, including:
- the best stage of development — as in "I met her at the pinnacle of her success."
- a high pointed rock formation or mountain peak — as in "The eagle circled the rocky pinnacle."
- a pointed tower at the top of a building — as in "With the pinnacle, it is the highest building in the city."
- The third showed the pinnacle of an iceberg piercing a polar winter sky: a muster of northern lights reared their dim lances, close serried, along the horizon.Chapter 13 (75% in)
There are no more uses of "pinnacle" in Jane Eyre.
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