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noun.
the concluding part of any performance
noun.
the temporal end; the concluding time
Word Usage
"May it not be that, in this generation, the word "finis" is being written to that conception which characterized the 18th and 19th centuries, and may we not he at the beginning of the new and different era of human history?"