consummation
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Consummation of the deal leaves many a well-known name in the arms & munitions field.
From Time Magazine Archive
And whether he is cropping instrumental voices closely for an original ballad like Consummation, or unleashing brassy, rhythmic bursts for a freewheeling tune like Fingers.
From Time Magazine Archive
A thing ever struggling forward; irrepressible, advancing inevitable; perfecting itself, all days, more and more,—never to be perfect till that general Doomsday, the ultimate Consummation, and Last of earthly Days.
From Past and Present by Carlyle, Thomas
And though the better Fortune came at last To seal the Work, yet every Wise Man knows Such Consummation never can be here!
From Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám and Salámán and Absál Together With A Life Of Edward Fitzgerald And An Essay On Persian Poetry By Ralph Waldo Emerson by FitzGerald, Edward
There was maintained a Solemnity called a Contraction a little before the Consummation of a marriage was allowed of.
From Customs and Fashions in Old New England by Earle, Alice Morse
Vocabulary lists containing consummation
Frankenstein
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The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark
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Hamlet's "To be or not to be" soliloquy
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