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Date: 1800-1900
Origin: climax

climactic

 adjective
     
cli‧mac‧tic
forming a very exciting or important part of an event or story, especially near the end of it [↪ climax]:
a climatic moment
Definition from the Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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