Emplot

verb

verb ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Verb
  1. 1
    To place an event in the context of a plot or story-line to make a narrative.

    "One thing is, however, certain: Through the early rudimentary translations from the Sanskrit, India was emplotted by the West. By this I mean that incomplete projections from a variety of sources were given a voice defined through narrative, and received the authority of signification."

Example

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"One thing is, however, certain: Through the early rudimentary translations from the Sanskrit, India was emplotted by the West. By this I mean that incomplete projections from a variety of sources were given a voice defined through narrative, and received the authority of signification."

Etymology

From em- + plot.

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