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emplotments

emplotments is the plural of emplotment.

Meaning of emplotment

Noun

emplotment (countable and uncountable, plural emplotments)

  1. The assembly of a series of historical events into a narrative with a plot.
    • Yet, I would argue, histories gain part of their explanatory effect by their success in making stories out of mere chronicles; and stories in turn are made out of chronicles by an operation which I have elsewhere called “emplotment.” And by emplotment I mean simply the encodation of the facts...1978, Hayden White, "The Historical Text As Literary Artifact", re-printed in Geoffrey Roberts (editor), The History and Narrative Reader, Routledge (2001), →ISBN, page 223

Questions about emplotments

What is emplotments the plural of?
Emplotments is the plural of emplotment.

Words near emplotments in the dictionary

  1. emplored
  2. emplores
  3. emploring
  4. emplot
  5. emplotment
  6. emplotments
  7. emplots
  8. emplotted
  9. emplotting
  10. employ
  11. employ a steam engine to crack a nut

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