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iumpe Murray (N. E. D. s. v. † 6): The decisive moment of plunging into action of doubtful issue; dangerous critical moment, critical point, crisis. (Latin, discrimen.) The notion is evidently that of making a jump or taking a plunge into the unknown or untried.
William Shakespeare. Horace Howard Furness. A New Variorum Edition of Shakespeare: The Tragedie of Anthonie, and Cleopatra. Philadelphia and London. J. B. Lippincott Company. 1907.
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