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.

Familiar Spanish Travels 2004

If such be thy ultimation, Church of infinite pretension, --

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 27, January, 1860 Various

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.

Familiar Spanish Travels William Dean Howells 1878

Italy, as elsewhere, realism is the ultimation of romanticism.

Modern Italian Poets Essays and Versions William Dean Howells 1878

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.

Literary Friends and Acquaintance; a Personal Retrospect of American Authorship William Dean Howells 1878

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.

My Mark Twain (from Literary Friends and Acquaintance) William Dean Howells 1878

Universal manhood suffrage is the ultimation of the great American rebellion.

An Apology for African Methodism 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.

The Rev. J. W. Loguen, as a Slave and as a Freeman. A Narrative of Real Life. 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.

The Rev. J. W. Loguen, as a Slave and as a Freeman. A Narrative of Real Life. Jermain Wesley 1859

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

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