anagnorisis

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Now then for anagnorisis, comic peripeteia, division into acts, and the rest of the wallet I smoked another two cigarettes and flung away a third in despair.

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  • And they are anagnorisis and peripeteia. —  Mike Rowe celebrates dirty jobs
  • Literally, the transition from ignorance to knowledge is anagnorisis, what our network does, it's what Dirty Jobs is. —  Mike Rowe celebrates dirty jobs
  • And this metaphor in my head -- I got anagnorisis and peripetia on my chin. —  Mike Rowe celebrates dirty jobs
  • - Astronomy, beyond our galaxy; not galactic. anagnorisis —  xml's Blinklist.com
  • The words struck home, Ferid-eddin abandoned his business, and devoted the rest of his life to meditation and collecting the sayings of the wise These four cases, the highwayman, the prince, the theologian, the poet, are sufficient to show that the Recognition (anagnorisis) and Revolution (peripeteia), to use Aristotle's phrase, which turns life from a chaotic dream into a well-ordered drama, of which God is the Protagonist, may receive as signal though not as frequent illustration in the territory of Islam as in that of Christianity. —  Mystics and Saints of Islam
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  1. New Latin, from Greek ἀναγνώρισις, recognition, in tragedy recognition as leading to the dénouement, from ἀναγνωρίζειν, recognize, especially in tragedy, from ἀνά, again, + γνωρίζειν, make known, gain knowledge of, from *γνωρος (not used, = Latin *gnōrus, in comp. ignōrare, know not, ignore; cf. gnarus, knowing), from γιγνώσκειν = English know, q. v.
 

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