apogee

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Here is modern civilisation at apogee -- the final word in luxury -- the _dénouement_ of spectacular life.

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  1. noun The point in the orbit of the moon or of an artificial satellite most distant from the center of the earth.
  2. noun The point in an orbit most distant from the body being orbited.
  3. noun The farthest or highest point; the apex: "The golden age of American sail, which began with the fast clipper ships in 1848, reached its apogee in the Gold Rush years” (Los Angeles Times).

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  • As the rocket nears its apogee, they fall silent again, watching for the parachutes. —  Baltimore City Paper
  • For now, bathed in the fortuitous magnificence of the stained glass, she shone in herself with an unearthly bloom, as if an abnormality that had always permeated her seductiveness were now at its apogee--as if, with no one to witness, she had reached the utter expression of her loveliness, which blazed forth for an instant completely, before dissolving in this strange element that mingled with it The multicolored lights released her. —  Sacrifice
  • Here is modern civilisation at apogee--the final word in luxury--the dénouement of spectacular life. —  Europe After 8:15
  • They witnessed the apogee, the decline, and the ruin of the dynasty CHAPTER X THE SHRINE OF ROYAL MEMORIES, THE SCENE OF WORLD ADJUSTMENTS It was not long after the enforced departure of Louis XVI and the Court that the immense sepulcher of regal glory was dismantled and forsaken. —  The Story of Versailles
  • With him painting reached its apogee, and in him were the seeds of its decadence. —  Promenades of an Impressionist
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  1. French apogée, from New Latin apogaeum, from Greek apogaion, from neuter of apogaios, far from the earth : apo-, apo- + gaia, earth.

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  1. from Middle Latin New Latin apogœum, apogēum, apogœon, apogeon, from Greek ἀπόγαιον, ἀπόγειον (sc. διἀστημα, distance), a planet's greatest distance from the earth, neuter of ἀπόγαιος, ἀπόγειος, from the land, from the earth (later L. apogeus, from the land), from ἀπό, from, + γῆ, poetical γαῖα, earth, land: see geography, etc.
 

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