Eum.: Our Loves what are they Buthowerly Sacrifices, only wanting Theprease and tumult of Solemnity? If theni'th' heat andAchme of Devotion We drink a newfiame in, can it be ought But to increase the Worship?
The few words of advice she gave him as to escaping political embarrassments, struck him as theacme of wisdom, and as indicating an interest in his well-being of the kindest description;...
1963, Albert Ellis,If This Be Sexual Heresy, page120:
[He] then holds back his own climax for another ten or fifteen minutes of active copulation until his mate signals him that she is about to reach heracme; then they both ecstatically erupt together.
1987, Jeanne de Berg,Women's Rites:
She has enough of the narcissist in her to love exhibiting herself and to have the exhibition itself arouse her and bring her to heracme (that's very literary, even a little affected, but it's a word that pleases me).
2012, Alexander Lowen,The Language of the Body: Physical Dynamics of Character Structure:
He reached a climax about one minute after penetration and as this was always much sooner than his partner reached heracme this disturbed him.
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