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8 lettersPronunciation /ɪˈpɪtəsɪs/Sorted aeiipsstStarts with EEnds with S0 clues
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Definitions

  1. The second part of a play, in which the action begins.

Word origin

From Ancient Greek ἐπίτασις (epítasis, “stretching”), from ἐπιτείνω (epiteínō, “to stretch”), from ἐπί (epí) + τείνω (teínō, “stretch”).

Used in a sentence

  • How my uncle Toby and Corporal Trim managed this matter,—with the history of their campaigns, which were no way barren of events,—may make no uninteresting under-plot in the epitasis and working up of this drama.
  • It doubles itself in the middle of his life, reflects itself in another, repeats itself, protasis, epitasis, catastasis, catastrophe.

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