culminative

[ kuhl-muh-ney-tiv ]

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.

Word History and Origins

Origin of culminative¹

culminate + -ive

Example Sentences

I have gathered a series of facts illustrative and demonstrative, by their culminative evidence.

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

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

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

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