Peripety

//pəˈɹɪpəti//

"Peripety" in a Sentence (2 examples)

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

As a consequence of the primeval peripety, the Adamic fall narrated in Genesis 3, […]

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