Anti-climax

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    Alternative spelling of anticlimax. alt-of, alternative, countable, uncountable

    "These tautologies and anti-climaces were too much for the colonel, and we are ashamed to say that he committed himself by publishing in the Commercial an indignant denial of ever having indited such an epistle."

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"These tautologies and anti-climaces were too much for the colonel, and we are ashamed to say that he committed himself by publishing in the Commercial an indignant denial of ever having indited such an epistle."

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