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countable and uncountable, plural peripeties
Alternative form of peripeteia (“sudden change in circumstances; crisis”) quotations examples
For him to fall in love was itself a violent peripety, bound to produce a violent upheaval […]
1911, Max Beerbohm, Zuleika Dobson
As a consequence of the primeval peripety, the Adamic fall narrated in Genesis 3, […]
2020, Paul M. Blowers, Visions and Faces of the Tragic […] , Oxford University Press, page 127
(psychoanalysis) The third stage of a dream in Jungian theory. examples