All 3 Uses
culminate
in
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
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- "Master," stammered he; "monseigneur—sire—how ought I to address you?" he said at length, having reached the culminating point of his crescendo, and knowing neither how to mount higher, nor to descend again.†
Chpt 1.2.6culminating = reaching the highest or most decisive or final stage
- The culminating point of this sweep of walls was the Papal gate, that is to say, near the present site of the Pantheon.†
Chpt 1.3.2 *
- The culminating point of the Town wall (that of Charles V.) was at the gates of Saint-Denis and Saint-Martin, whose situation has not been changed.†
Chpt 1.3.2
Definitions:
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(1)
(culminate) reach the highest or most decisive or final stage
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)