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Definitions
a sudden and unexpected change of fortune or reverse of circumstances (especially in a literary work)
Word origin
From Late Latin peripetia, and its source Ancient Greek περιπέτεια (peripéteia), from περιπίπτω (peripíptō, “to change suddenly”), from περί (perí, “round, around, about”) + the stem of πίπτω (píptō, “to fall”).
Used in a sentence
“If we recoil with the consternation of surprise at such a conclusion, it is no defense to invoke as parallel the peripeteia by which Euripides in his Ion leads us to expect one ending yet effects another.”
“Once more I was a man in a myth, incapable of understanding it, but somehow aware that understanding it meant it must continue, however sinister its peripeteia.”
“They were to bestride the Algerian scene like demigods until the tragic peripeteia of 1961 […]”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
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