grand climacteric
Americannoun
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
Putnam himself might have asked this question, for he had by no means reached his "grand climacteric," and was still ready, willing—and able, as well—to fight the enemies of his country.
From "Old Put" The Patriot by Frederick Albion Ober
Emerson wrote occasionally in verse from his school-days until he had reached the age which used to be known as the grand climacteric, sixty-three....
From Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson by Edna Henry Lee Turpin
That exhilaration, that luxury of leisurely circumspection may never return, or only, as happily in my own case, with the grand climacteric.
From The Adventure of Living : a Subjective Autobiography by John St. Loe Strachey
Alas! he has not even reached his grand climacteric.
From The Ivory Gate, a new edition by Sir Walter Besant
I am now in my grand climacteric, and shall not complete it.
From The Wits and Beaux of Society Volume 1 by Grace Wharton
Random Word
Spin the wheel and learn a new word!
Get a wordDefinitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
