acmè

A form of acme — A high point: the highest point of any range, the most developed stage of any process, or the culmination of any field or historical period.

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Meanings

nounacmè (plural acmès)

plural acmès

  1. obsoleteObsolete spelling of acme.
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    "As we have not as yet," says he, "spoken a single word about the very ancient, and I know not whether more ridiculous or perverse, persuasion of our forefathers about semigods, this seems the proper place for saying a few words about this so celebrated figment, as it was chiefly in this period it attained its acmè, and it was believed as a true and necessary article of faith, that there are genii or semigods, called in our language Alfa and Alfa-folk."

    1828, Thomas Keightley, The Fairy Mythology, volume I, London: William Harrison Ainsworth, page 252
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APA

acmè. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/acm%C3%A8

MLA

“acmè.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/acm%C3%A8. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “acmè,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/acm%C3%A8.

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