Crowning and Preceding

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Crowning adjective - Forming or providing a crown or summit.

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Preceding and crowning are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Preceding" instead an adjective "Crowning".

Nearby Words: crown, crowned

Preceding adjective - Going before another in time or order.

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Crowning and preceding are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Crowning" instead an adjective "Preceding".

Nearby Words: precede, precedent, precedence, preceded

That one book alone has more Crowning Moments Of Awesome to its name than any preceding it.

Source: Big Badass Battle Sequence
As part of a Moment of Awesome, and sometimes preceding an Awesome Moment of Crowning, the camera pulls back, and the entire crowd kneels before the character, moving in a pleasingly symmetrical wave as they do so.

Source: Kneel Before Frodo

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