climax – English noun declension

English noun forms of climax

Noun: climax
Singularclimax
Pluralclimaxes

Sample Sentences

  • Ye haue a figure which as well by his Greeke and Latine originals […] may be called the marching figure […] and goeth as it were by ſtrides or paces; it may aſwell by called the clyming figure, for Clymax is as much to ſay as a ladder,[…] [1589 June, George Puttenham, chapter 19, in Edward Arber, editor, The Arte of English Poesie, volume 3, London, published 1869, page 217:]
  • Climax, by steps advancing, onward goes
  • Higher and still more high to an impassion'd close. [1835, L[arret] Langley, “[Rhetorical Figures.] Climax.”, in A Manual of the Figures of Rhetoric, […], Doncaster, South Yorkshire: […] C. White, […], →OCLC, page 26:]
  • […]Expressions for the whole Climax of sensibility[…] [1781, John Moore, chapter VI, in A view of society and manners in Italy, volume I, page 63:]
  • The Begums' ministers, on the contrary, to extort from them the disclosure of the place which concealed the treasures, were, […] after being fettered and imprisoned, led out on to a scaffold, and this array of terrours proving unavailing, the meek tempered Middleton, as a dernier resort, menaced them with a confinement in the fortress of Chunargar. Thus, my lords, was a British garrison made the climax of cruelties! [1788 June, Richard Brinsley Sheridan, “Mr. Sheridan’s Speech, on Summing Up the Evidence on the Second, or Begum Charge against Warren Hastings, Esq., Delivered before the High Court of Parliament, June 1788”, in Select Speeches, Forensick and Parliamentary, with Prefatory Remarks by N[athaniel] Chapman, M.D., volume I, [Philadelphia, Pa.]: Published by Hopkins and Earle, no. 170, Market Street, published 1808, →OCLC, page 474:]
  • As a trafficker in climaxes and thrills and characterization and wonderful dialogue and suspense and confrontations, I had outlined the Dresden story many times. [1969 March 31, Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., chapter 1, in Slaughterhouse-Five […] (A Seymour Lawrence Book), New York, N.Y.: Delacorte Press, →OCLC, page 4:]
  • In the accomplishment of this, they frequently reach the climax of absurdity. [1789, Trifler, 448, No. XXXV:]
  • When he adds epithets of praise, his climax is ‘so English’. [1856, Ralph Waldo Emerson, chapter IX, in English Traits, page 147:]
  • Near-synonyms: old-growth, mature ecosystem
  • The succession of associations leading to a climax represents the process of adjustment to the conditions of stress, and the climax represents a condition of relative equilibrium. Climax associations[…] are the resultants of certain climatic, geological[…] conditions. [1915 July 17, Bulletin of the Illinois State Laboratory:]
  • In many cases the man's climax comes so swiftly that the woman's reactions are not nearly ready. [1918, Marie Carmichael Stopes, Married love, section 50:]
  • What's the use of bringing some high schooler to climax? [1980, Paul Schrader, American Gigolo, spoken by Julian Kaye (Richard Gere):]

Nouns inflected like climax

anti-climax, climax,

Etymology

From Latin clīmax, from Ancient Greek κλῖμαξ (klîmax, “ladder, staircase, [rhetorical] climax”), from κλίνω (klínō, “to lean, slant”). See: Latin Nouns 'clīmax', Ancient Greek Nouns 'κλῖμαξ'.