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"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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},
{
"rhymes": "-aɪmæks"
}
],
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"climax"
],
"word": "climax"
}
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"msg": "''A culmination or acme: the las'[...]' gloss has examples we want to keep, but there are subglosses.",
"path": [
"climax"
],
"section": "English",
"subsection": "noun",
"title": "climax",
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}
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