grand climacteric

American  

noun

1. climacteric3

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Example Sentences

This amiable couple seemed to border hard on their grand climacteric; nor indeed were they shy of owning enough to fix their ages within a year or two of that time.

From Journal of a Voyage to Lisbon — Volume 1 by Fielding, Henry

Physicians speak in a physiological sense of the grand climacteric of a man's age.

From How to See a Play by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir

Mrs Beazely, the housekeeper, was a good-tempered woman, long past the grand climacteric, and strongly attached to Forster, with whom she had resided many years.

From Newton Forster by Marryat, Frederick

Had the lady Maki's son-in-law succeeded Sanetomo, the former would have been the next victim of Tokimasa's ambition, whereafter the field would have been open for the grand climacteric, the supremacy of the Hojo.

From A History of the Japanese People From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era by Brinkley, F. (Frank)

But perhaps it is a grand climacteric and will pass away.

From The Letters of William James, Vol. II by James, William