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peripeteia

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10 lettersPronunciation /pɛɹɪpɪˈtɪə/Part of speech nounSorted aeeeiipprtStarts with PEnds with A0 clues
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  1. 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”).

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  • 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 […]

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