Ultimation

When this is grayed with age it is indeed of the effect of old silver work; but the plateresque in Valladolid does not suggest fragility or triviality; its grace is perhaps rather feminine than masculine; but at the worst it is only the ultimation of the decorative genius of the Gothic. ❋ Unknown (2004)

If such be thy ultimation, Church of infinite pretension, -- ❋ Various (N/A)

Very likely he brought it to a practicable stage, and then tired of it, as he was apt to do in the ultimation of his vehement undertakings. ❋ William Dean Howells (1878)

Italy, as elsewhere, realism is the ultimation of romanticism. ❋ William Dean Howells (1878)

Universal manhood suffrage is the ultimation of the great American rebellion. ❋ Benjamin Tucker (1867)

All this time the orators, well knowing the great idea with which the body they addressed was pregnant, and waiting painfully its ultimation, showered their inflammatory eloquence on their brains. ❋ Jermain Wesley (1859)

But the growing hostility to slavery originated in religious motives only; and its political manifestations were but the ultimation of interior convictions, which several prominent, influential, and eminently good men in the Church believed were wrought by the Holy Ghost, to be carried into their lives -- or that their religion was a gross delusion. ❋ Jermain Wesley (1859)

He added that it was '100 percent his own idea', and not the result of an ultimation from Bullock. ❋ Unknown (2010)