All 3 Uses of
culminate
in
Leaves of Grass
- Not wan from Asia's fetiches,
Nor red from Europe's old dynastic slaughter-house,
(Area of murder-plots of thrones, with scent left yet of wars and
scaffolds everywhere,
But come from Nature's long and harmless throes, peacefully builded thence,
These virgin lands, lands of the Western shore,
To the new culminating man, to you, the empire new,
You promis'd long, we pledge, we dedicate.†Chpt 14culminating = reaching the highest or most decisive or final stage
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And thou America,
For the scheme's culmination, its thought and its reality,
For these (not for thyself) thou hast arrived.†Chpt 17 *culmination = the final result (after reaching the highest or most decisive or final stage)
- O glad, exulting, culminating song!†
Chpt 32culminating = reaching the highest or most decisive or final stage
Definition:
reach the highest or most decisive or final stage