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noun 
  1. a reversal of fortune; a sudden change in circumstances
  • 1965: Once more I was a man in a myth, incapable of understanding it, but somehow aware that understanding it meant it must continue, however sinister its . " John Fowles, The Magus
Etymology: Greek , ultimately from â "round, around, about" + â stem of "to fall".


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