the highest or most intense point in the development or resolution of something; culmination: His career reached its climax when he was elected president. 2. (in a dramatic or literary work) a decisive moment that is of maximum intensity or is a major turning point in a plot. 3. Rhetoric. a figure consisting of a series of related ideas so arranged that each surpasses the preceding in force or intensity.
Definition of freedom of speech. : the legal right to express one's opinions freely.
Free speech is a right but it is also a habit, and where the habit shrivels so will the right. If free speech today is in headlong retreatâeverywhere threatened by regulation, organized harassment, and even violenceâit is in part because our political culture allowed the practice of persuasive oratory to atrophy.