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peripety

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15
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16
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8
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/pəˈɹɪpəti/

Definition of peripety

2 senses · 1 part of speech

noun

  1. (alt-of, alternative, countable, uncountable)Alternative form of peripeteia (“sudden change in circumstances; crisis”).
    “For him to fall in love was itself a violent peripety, bound to produce a violent upheaval […]”
    “As a consequence of the primeval peripety, the Adamic fall narrated in Genesis 3, […]”
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noun

  1. (alt-of, alternative, countable, uncountable)Alternative form of peripeteia (“sudden change in circumstances; crisis”).
    “For him to fall in love was itself a violent peripety, bound to produce a violent upheaval […]”
    “As a consequence of the primeval peripety, the Adamic fall narrated in Genesis 3, […]”
  2. (countable, uncountable)The third stage of a dream in Jungian theory.

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