Both Uses of
climax
in
Middlemarch
- But Rosamond had registered every look and word, and estimated them as the opening incidents of a preconceived romance—incidents which gather value from the foreseen development and climax.†
Chpt 2 *
- It is still the beginning of the home epic—the gradual conquest or irremediable loss of that complete union which makes the advancing years a climax, and age the harvest of sweet memories in common.†
Chpt Fin.
Definitions:
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(1)
(climax as in: climax of the story) the most exciting or important part of a story, musical piece, or other thing that has a series of events
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) meaning too rare to warrant focus:
A comprehensive dictionary will describe other or more specific senses of climax.