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Meaning of "peripety" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF PERIPETY

pəˈrɪpətɪ


GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF PERIPETY

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Peripety is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES PERIPETY MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Peripeteia

Peripeteia /ˌpɛrəpɨˈtaɪ.ə/ is a reversal of circumstances, or turning point. The term is primarily used with reference to works of literature. The English form of peripeteia is peripety.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH PERIPETY

champerty · crorepati · disproperty · jupati · liberty · obesity · peripeteia · poverty · property · severity · similarity · society · suitability · sustainability · tapeti · validity · vanaspati · variability · versatility · vulnerability

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE PERIPETY

peripatetic · peripatetical · peripatetically · peripateticism · peripatus · peripeteia · peripeteian · peripetia · peripetian · peripheral · peripheral device · peripheral primitive neuroectodermal tumour · peripheral unit · peripheral vision · peripherality · peripherally · peripheric · peripherical · peripheries · periphery

WORDS THAT END LIKE PERIPETY

anxiety · civil society · entirety · factor of safety · honor society · humane society · moiety · ninety · notoriety · piety · propriety · road safety · Royal Society · safety · snippety · sobriety · subtlety · surety · variety · velvety

Synonyms and antonyms of peripety in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «peripety» into 25 languages

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急转
1,325 millions of speakers
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peripety
570 millions of speakers
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peripety
510 millions of speakers
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peripety
380 millions of speakers
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peripety
280 millions of speakers
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peripety
278 millions of speakers
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peripécia
270 millions of speakers
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peripety
260 millions of speakers
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péripétie
220 millions of speakers
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Peripet
190 millions of speakers
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peripety
180 millions of speakers
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peripety
130 millions of speakers
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peripety
85 millions of speakers
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Peripety
85 millions of speakers
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peripety
80 millions of speakers
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peripety
75 millions of speakers
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प्रकीया
75 millions of speakers
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peripety
70 millions of speakers
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peripety
65 millions of speakers
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peripety
50 millions of speakers
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peripety
40 millions of speakers
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peripety
30 millions of speakers
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peripety
15 millions of speakers
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peripety
14 millions of speakers
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peripety
10 millions of speakers
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peripeti
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of peripety

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «PERIPETY»

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about peripety

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PERIPETY»

Discover the use of peripety in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to peripety and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Making Sense of Project Realities: Theory, Practice and the ...
A useful perspective on these dynamics is the dramatic concept of peripety. This term was used by Aristotle to denote a point in the plot of a play when the arrival of some new information transforms our understanding of what is happening on ...
Charles Smith, 2012
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Esther & Daniel
Jobes has noted the significance of this observation: By making the pivot point of the peripety an insignificant event rather than the point of highest dramatic tension, the author is taking the focus away from human action. Had the pivot point of ...
Mark Mangano, 2001
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Esther
The use of peripety in Esther is not simply a literary device to produce an aesthetically pleasing story. This book is an example of how form and content mutually interact in a text. The structure of peripety deeply reflects the worldview of the ...
Karen H. Jobes, 2011
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Communists, Cowboys, and Queers: The Politics of Masculinity ...
46 Following his Norwegian master, he provides a causal link between scenes, building an argument dialec- tically and leading the action to a single climactic peripety. Almost invariably in Miller, this moment of reversal functions as a ...
David Savran
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Literary Criticism: Plato to Dryden
If an action is knit together as a unit in the way already laid down,67 I call it simple when the change of fortune takes place without peripety or recognition; but I call it involved when the change of fortune is accompanied by recognition or  ...
Allan H. Gilbert, 1962
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Unending Conversations: New Writings by and about Kenneth Burke
But though his specific application of this formula in effect includes the middle as part of the end, there is no sheer dialectical shifting of his terms: the peripety remains the peripety and none other, whether you decide to call it the beginning of ...
Greig E. Henderson, David Cratis Williams, 2001
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Washington University Studies
In plays based on the epic as a whole, Peripety assumes an important r61e (Poet . 18.1456al6ff.): All who have dramatized the fall of Ilium in its entirety, and not part by part, like Euripides, or the whole of the Niobe Story, instead of a portion, ...
Washington University (Saint Louis, Mo.), 1918
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Genre: A Guide to Writing for Stage and Screen
Reveals and peripety are commonplace throughout the story: a celebrated soldier returns to a disagreement rather than a celebration; a wedding night turns into a traumatic event as hope turns to disappointment; a loyal subject turns into a  ...
Andrew Tidmarsh, 2014
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Dictionary of the Old Testament: Wisdom, Poetry & Writings: ...
The Structure of Peripety. The literary structure of the book is defined by repetition of the primary motif of feasting (Jobes, 154-58). The three pairs of feasts mark the rise and fall of a plot that is characterized by peripety. The word peripety (from ...
Tremper Longman III, Peter Enns, 2008
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Character and Ideology in the Book of Esther: Second Edition ...
This order—progression through reversal—~is the principle of peripety. Of course , ironic titfor-tat reversals are extremely common in literature and do not in themselves constitute a statement about the world order. In Esther, however, this  ...
Michael V. Fox, 2010

8 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «PERIPETY»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term peripety is used in the context of the following news items.
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Springbok rugby: Look on ye mighty and despair
Right now, Australia's hubris is Springbok peripety. But in what South Africa can throw on the field, one senses that in the colossal wreckage of ... «The Roar, Jul 15»
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Extra! Extra! Famous Travel Writers Spill Trade Secrets (And Dish …
A Maverick Guide to a Life in Journalism by Robert W. Bone (Peripety Press, $15.95). 2014-08-27-BetterFireBonecover.jpeg. When it comes to ... «Huffington Post, Aug 14»
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'He Was a Deflator of the Orthodox'
... who inspires Pakistanis with dreams of dominance even after a 66-year peripety of horrors. He translated his work readably and revived him ... «Newsweek Pakistan, Mar 14»
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Michelle Bachelet: Inequality in Chile
The peripety in the Chilean saga, however, came in March of that year when the country took a sharp turn to the political right after the ... «Upside Down World, May 13»
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“They'll kill me...”
David's career included the murky peripety of becoming a double agent, a drug smuggler, with a curious periodic fits of Pakistani nationalism. Writing in Daily ... «The Friday Times, Jun 11»
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Christ and Nothing
This is more than a dramatic peripety. The empty tomb overturns all the “responsible” and “necessary” verdicts of Christ's judges, and so grants ... «First Things, Jun 11»
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"Insidious" lives up to his name. (photo by Magezi Photography)
Aristotle considered peripety, or dramatic reversal, to be a requirement of a good play. Right when we think Shabazz has taken us to the lowest ... «Artvoice, Jul 10»
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MORE ON 'The Argument and Dinner Party'
In short, while you may not be able to take in all the nuances of thought being presented — wait, what's peripety again? — Mr. Greenspan's ... «New York Times, Jun 07»
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