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Peripety

//pəˈɹɪpəti// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    Alternative form of peripeteia (“sudden change in circumstances; crisis”). alt-of, alternative, countable, uncountable

    "For him to fall in love was itself a violent peripety, bound to produce a violent upheaval […]"

  2. 2
    a sudden and unexpected change of fortune or reverse of circumstances (especially in a literary work) wordnet
  3. 3
    The third stage of a dream in Jungian theory. countable, uncountable

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