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Anticlimax
ASA'S FEET
"anticlimax.
Annulment of the impressive effect of a climax by a final item of
inferior importance. 'The rest of all the acts of Asa, and all his
might, [and all that he did,] and the cities which he built, are they
not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?
Nevertheless in the time of his old age he was diseased in his feet.'"
Fowler's Modern English Usage,
Second Edition, Revised by Sir Ernest Gowers (Oxford: Clarendon Press 1968),
p.30, quoting 1 Kings 15:23, Authorised Version.
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