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deae ex machina

deae ex machina is the plural of dea ex machina.

Meaning of dea ex machina

Noun

dea ex machina (plural deae ex machina)

  1. A female deus ex machina; a providential intervention (in a story etc.) from a female force or character.
    • That's the end of her story—the Cinderella path—but it's not the end of her life, which is just as well, because the poor little rat-boy ends up in desperate need of a dea ex machina in order to save him from the terrible fate towards which the path of his story seems to be taking him.1999, Philip Pullman, “The Path Through the Wood”, in Daemon Voices, Vintage, published 2017, page 79

Questions about deae ex machina

What is deae ex machina the plural of?
Deae ex machina is the plural of dea ex machina.

Words near deae ex machina in the dictionary

  1. deadworks
  2. Deadwyler
  3. deady
  4. deadzone
  5. deadzones
  6. deae ex machina
  7. deaerate
  8. deaerated
  9. deaerates
  10. deaerating
  11. deaeration

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