catastasis

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Raise the interest rates but also curb the usury that sends people into a financial catastasis.

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  1. noun The intensified part of the action directly preceding the catastrophe in classical tragedy.
  2. noun The climax of a drama.

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  • Raise the interest rates but also curb the usury that sends people into a financial catastasis. —  Drudge Retort
  • Consider therefore this pitiable Twentieth of June as a futility; no catastrophe, rather a catastasis, or heightening. —  The French Revolution
  • It doubles itself in the middle of his life, reflects itself in another, repeats itself, protasis, epitasis, catastasis, catastrophe. —  Ulysses
 

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  1. Greek katastasis, settled state, from kathistanai, to come into a certain state : kat-, kata-, cata- + histanai, to set; see stā- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. New Latin (later F. catastase), from Greek κατάστασ, σ1ις, a settling, arranging, setting forth, from καθιστάναι, settle, constitute, from κατά, down, + ίστάναι, set up, mid. stand, = English stand.
 

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