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"word": "മൂർദ്ധന്യം"
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"ref": "1781, John Moore, chapter VI, in A view of society and manners in Italy, volume I, page 63",
"text": "[…]Expressions for the whole Climax of sensibility[…]",
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"ref": "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",
"text": "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!",
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"ref": "1915 July 17, Bulletin of the Illinois State Laboratory",
"text": "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.",
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"ref": "1918, Marie Carmichael Stopes, Married love, section 50",
"text": "In many cases the man's climax comes so swiftly that the woman's reactions are not nearly ready.",
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"roman": "gāo cháo",
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"word": "jouissance"
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"sense": "orgasm",
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