culminative

American  

[kuhl-muh-nay-tiv] / ˈkʌl məˌneɪ tɪv /

adjective

Linguistics.

1. (of stress or tone accent) serving to indicate the number of independent words or the important points in an utterance by assigning prominence to one syllable in each word or close-knit group of words.

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Etymology

Origin of culminative

culminate + -ive

Example Sentences

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culminative

The culminative influences of hundreds of generations of civilization spoke in him here.

From Jan A Dog and a Romance by Norman Rockwell

This culminative movement, begun in the decline of the nineteenth century, may well be destined to mark the twentieth century as the great era of social readjustment.

From The Salamander by Owen Johnson

Thus is reached the culminative point in the course of the provision for the education of the deaf in America.

From The Deaf Their Position in Society and the Provision for Their Education in the United States by Harry Best

In the spring she began to gather from Anthony's letters—not from any one in particular but from their culminative effect—that he did not want her to come South.

From The Beautiful and Damned by F. Scott (Francis Scott) Fitzgerald

It was the consensus of opinion that it would be madness to attempt arrest during the culminative ceremonies.

From A Republic Without a President and Other Stories by Herbert D. (Herbert Dickinson) Ward