peripety
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editNoun
editperipety (countable and uncountable, plural peripeties)
- Alternative form of peripeteia (“sudden change in circumstances; crisis”)
- 1911, Max Beerbohm, Zuleika Dobson:
- For him to fall in love was itself a violent peripety, bound to produce a violent upheaval […]
- (psychoanalysis) The third stage of a dream in Jungian theory.