Emplot
verb
verb ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Verb
- 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
More examples"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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