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‖ dénouement|deˈnumɑ̃|
[F. dénouement, dénoûment, formerly desnouement, f. dénouer, desnouer, in OF. desnoer to untie = Pr. denozar, It. disnodare, a Romanic formation from L. dis- + nodāre to knot, nodus knot.]
Unravelling; spec. the final unravelling of the complications of a plot in a drama, novel, etc.; the catastrophe; transf. the final solution or issue of a complication, difficulty, or mystery.
1752Chesterfield Lett. cclxx. (1792) III. 237 Had the truth been extorted from Varon..by the rack, it would have been a true tragical dénouement. 1771Smollett Humph. Cl. (1815) 169 The particulars of the ‘denouement’ you shall know in due season. 1851Mayne Reid Scalp Hunters xxii. 163 Up to the present time we had all stood waiting the dénouement in silence. 1871B. Taylor Faust (1875) I. 228 These lines suggest..the moral dénouement of the plot. |